“No, I won’t shut up.” For the first time since the death of his brother Mehdi, 20, shot dead in Marseille by two people on a motorbike, Thursday, November 13, activist Amine Kessaci spoke in a column published this Wednesday by the newspaper World. “I will say and repeat that my brother Mehdi died in vain. I will speak about the violence of the drug trade”promises a 22-year-old environmental activist involved in the fight against drug bandits. In 2020, the young man had mourned the murder of his other brother, Brahim, 22, whose body was found charred in a vehicle.
“They spoke to me about warnings of evil. But evil was never a warning. The bloodshed lasted forever, and plunged my family into untold death. We were beaten to destroy us, to tame us, to enslave us.”also wrote Amine Kessaci, who buried his sister on Tuesday. “This is what smugglers do: they seek to eliminate all resistance, break all will, stop the embryo of rebellion from expanding their power over our lives”he added. And the activist regrets that the police protection he has been given in recent weeks has not been extended to his loved ones. “In fact, who doesn’t know that my family has paid blood tribute ? How could I not know that my family could be affected? he asked himself.
“Facing such an enemy, the State must pay attention to what is happening and understand that a struggle to the death is underway.he warned again. It is time to act, for example by returning public services to neighborhoods, confronting the educational failures that leave traffickers with a compliant workforce, providing investigators and police with the tools they need, empowering and truly supporting the families of drug trafficking victims. We count our deaths, but what does the state do? Addressing the National Assembly on Tuesday, the Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, spoke about a “big social challenge” and believes that the fight against drug trafficking must be inspired by it “fighting terrorism”.
