Overview
- Investigators in southern France detained ten people over the contract-style killing of 20-year-old Mehdi Kessaci, the brother of anti-drug activist Amine Kessaci, in Marseille.
- The new organized-crime prosecutor said the group is under investigation for gang-related murder and criminal-organization membership.
- Press reports link the suspects to the DZ Mafia, a powerful drug network, and say they include eight men and two women in their early twenties.
- The arrests follow a broader push that saw 42 people held two weeks earlier and, on Monday, a trial open in Aix-en-Provence for three alleged DZ Mafia leaders.
- Officials described the shooting as an intimidation act as President Emmanuel Macron held a crisis meeting and thousands in Marseille marched against drug violence.