2023-09-08 04:00:31
His childhood dream dented by existence was big cars surrounded by girls in bikinis. To access this mirage, on August 9, 2019, Mathieu – the first name has been changed –, 16, escapes from the social assistance home for children in Eure-et-Loir where he lives after several failures foster care placements. Direction Marseille where, after reading enticing advertisements published on the Snapchat and TikTok social networks by the narcotics sales networks in search of labour, the teenager thinks that he will earn 500 euros daily by selling Drugs.
Three days after disembarking at Saint-Charles station, on August 13, a car dropped him off between life and death in front of a hospital before leaving, squealing the tires. His body is martyred, bears the traces of around forty cigarette burns and Mathieu was burned with a blowtorch on his sex and thighs.
Four defendants aged 22 to 30 are on trial from Friday, September 8 before the Assize Court of Bouches-du-Rhône for this ordeal that the judges described as “kidnapping and sequestration accompanied by acts of torture and of barbarism”.
Like all young wanderers who come to Marseille to offer their arms to drug traffickers – they have been called “jobbeurs” – Mathieu finds, as soon as he arrives, a “job” in Micocouliers, a housing estate in the northern districts of the city. , a mecca for the sale of narcotics. He was arrested when he had just taken up his post but, unbeknownst to the police, he hid the cocaine and cannabis contained in his “charcoal bag” under a tree.
“Worse than an animal”
Custody, judge of the children and placement in a home the time to find an educator who will take him back to Chartres… But Mathieu immediately runs away, runs to the Micocouliers to recover the drugs and runs in front of the building A6 of the Félix-Pyat housing estate to dispose of his a few grams. This sale in « freelance », without the authorization of the managers of Félix-Pyat, immediately leads to a rain of punches and iron bars by the actors of the network. They want to know who he works for. Taken to a disused association building, he was tied to a chair with an electric cable, stripped naked with scissors, burned and beaten. A boy then aged 17 – sentenced to ten years in prison in November 2022 by the juvenile court – forced him to snort cocaine. Was he also made to swallow stain remover for laundry, of which the investigators found traces on the spot? “They treated me worse than an animal”said Mathieu to the examining magistrate.
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