１５歳少年、５０回刺され生きたまま焼殺　仏マルセイユ

【マルセイユＡＦＰ＝時事】南仏マルセイユで先週、１５歳の少年が５０回刺された後、生きたまま焼き殺される事件があり、衝撃が広がっている。同市ではサッカー選手が殺害される事件も起きており、検察官は６日の記者会見で、いずれも麻薬絡みとみられると語った。（写真は、南仏マルセイユで、麻薬関連の暴力事件で２０２３年に死亡した４９人を追悼するためにデモ参加者が裁判所の階段に並べた４９体のシルエット）
　フランス第２の都市マルセイユでは貧困率が高く、麻薬関連の暴力事件が多発している。昨年の関連死者数は過去最多の４９人に上った。
　市内の麻薬密売人は、ＳＮＳで犯罪の実行犯役を募り、若者たちに「外注」して路上での薬物取引を行わせている。
　ニコラ・ベソーヌ検事は、若者たちは今や「良心の呵責（かしゃく）を感じることなく」殺人にも手を染めるようになっていると指摘。暴力事件の被害者と加害者の若年化が進んでいると警鐘を鳴らした。
　１５歳の少年は、ギャング「ＤＺマフィア」の構成員を自称している受刑者（２３）にＳＮＳを通じて２０００ユーロ（約３３万円）で雇われ、対立するギャング構成員の自宅ドアに火をつけて脅すよう指示されていた。
　少年は実行を試みた今月２日、対立するギャングに発見され、ベソーヌ氏によれば５０回刺された。また「検視の結果、生きたまま焼かれたことが分かった」という。
　少年に指示した受刑者は報復として、ＳＮＳで新たに１４歳の少年に、対立するギャングのメンバーを殺害するよう持ち掛け、５万ユーロ（約８２０万円）の報酬を約束。
　ベソーヌ氏によると、この少年は友人と共にタクシーに乗り、「ここで降ろして、自分たちが戻るまで待っていてほしい」と頼んだところ、運転手は拒否。その後、少年が「運転手の後頭部を銃で撃った」とみられている。
　殺害されたネシム・ラムダンさん（３６）はサッカー選手で、家族を養うために個人タクシーの運転手としても働いていた。
　少年を雇った受刑者が警察に通報し、少年は身柄を拘束された。ラムダンさんへの発砲を認めたものの、誤射だと主張しているという。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/10/07-17:06）

The southern French city of Marseille was shaken this week by two apparently drug-related killings, including the murder of a 15-year-old boy who was stabbed 50 times and burned alive, prosecutors said on Sunday.
Marseille, France's second-largest city but also one of its poorest, is plagued by drug-related violence.
The historic port city on the Mediterranean coast has in recent years witnessed a turf war for control of the highly profitable drug market between various gangs including DZ Mafia and Yoda.
The problem was once again thrust into the public eye Sunday, as Marseille prosecutor Nicolas Bessone told reporters that the victims and perpetrators of such violence were getting increasingly younger.
The 15-year-old was murdered on Wednesday in a case Bessone described as one of unprecedented savagery.
On Friday, a 36-year-old football player, Nessim Ramdane, was shot and killed in cold blood by a 14-year-old in a case linked to Wednesday's murder.
The two latest cases mean that the number of drug-related killings in Marseille has risen to 17 since the start of the year.
Marseille's drug lords have been recruiting foot soldiers with ads on social media, outsourcing street dealing to youngsters known as jobbeurs.
Bessone said on Sunday that now young boys were responding to ads not only to sell cannabis resin but also to kill without any remorse or reflection.
The teenager had been hired via social networks by a 23-year-old prisoner to intimidate a competitor by setting fire to his door, the prosecutor said, adding the youth had been promised 2,000 euros.
The detainee of the Luynes prison south of Aix-en-Provence had described himself as a member of DZ Mafia.
- Shot in the head -
During his mission, the teenager was spotted by members of a rival gang who searched him and discovered that he was carrying a gun. To punish the minor, they repeatedly stabbed him then set him on fire.
He was stabbed 50 times and taken to the Fonscolombes housing estate, where, according to the results of the autopsy, he was burned alive, said Bessone. His friend, also aged 15, managed to escape, Bessone added.
The same prisoner then again turned to social media, recruiting a 14-year-old minor to carry out a revenge attack and kill a member of the Blacks gang, promising to pay him 50,000 euros.
This 14-year-old hired Ramdane, a football player who also worked as a private-hire driver to support his family, the prosecutor said.
The minor, accompanied by a friend, asked the driver to drop them off and wait for them, but he apparently didn't comply, Bessone said.
The teenager then shot him in the back of the head, he added.
It was the prisoner who had hired the teenager who phoned the police to turn him in.
The minor was taken into custody and admitted shooting the driver, but insisted that the shot had gone off accidentally. He has been placed in detention in a section of a regional prison for minors.
In September, Franck Rastoul, public prosecutor at the Aix-en-Provence court of appeal, warned of the scourge of drug-related violence.
It is imperative that we fully understand the ravages of drug trafficking, which undermines the very foundations of our society, he said.
Rastoul said young people were intoxicated by easy drug money to the point of total disregard for human life.
Drug-related violence caused a record number of 49 deaths in Marseille last year.