A Marseille clerk placed in detention – Liberation
Dirty day for the narcotrafic and Marseille corruption. A few hours later the imprisonment of two police officers For « Import and drug trafficking in organized gang, money laundering, criminal association, false in public writing », It is the Aix-en-Provence prosecutor’s office that tells us this Saturday, April 5 that a clerk of the Marseille judicial court was placed in pre-trial detention on Friday, suspected of maintaining links with drug traffickers and having provided them judicial information.
This official in thirty years was « Indicted for complicity in drug trafficking, criminal association, non-justification of resources, violation of professional secrecy and illegal consultation of legal files », confirmed the Aix-en-Provence prosecutor, Jean-Luc Blachon, to AFP. It was then placed in pre -trial detention by decision of the liberty judge and detention.
This clerk, whose profession is to assist magistrates in their files, authenticate jurisdictional acts or play an intermediary role in procedures, with lawyers in particular, led a lifestyle that did not correspond to its income.
He is notably accused of having consulted files and transmitted information to a trafficker with which she had a relationship, we learned from a source close to the investigation. His incarceration comes within the framework of a wider judicial information opened in October. Fifteen other people have also been indicted in this file which a priori has no connection with the Dz mafiacriminal organization suspected of many homicides in recent years in Marseille.
The anti-structuring office (OFAST) is in charge of the investigation, controlled by the Aix-en-Provence prosecution so that it is a different court from that concerned by the facts that instruct the file.
Marseille is particularly plagued by drug trafficking. After a catastrophic 2023 year which had ended in 49 dead, the war for the control of deal points killed 24 people last year, including a VTC driver perfectly foreign to traffic in October.
