His death on the way threw Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône) into chaos and raised concerns all the way to the Élysée. Mehdi Kessaci was killed on November 13, shot in the chest by a motorcycle killer commando, in front of everyone, in the 4th arrondissement of the city of Marseille.
A crime in the form of a warning addressed to his brother, Amine? This is a tip that investigators like. The killers wanted to force the victim into silence, although it cannot be ruled out that he was their initial target. And for good reason, Amine Kessaci is an environmental activist who is also deeply involved in eradicating drug trafficking in his city.
“If I want to live, I have to speak”
Founder of the Conscience association, the young man was a guest at 8 p.m. news on France 2 this Wednesday evening. “My mother, who had lost a child (Brahim, her half-brother, was killed in 2020, Editor’s Note), was burying her second son, my 20-year-old younger brother,” Amine Kessaci said for the first time on the set of Léa Salamé the day after her brother Mehdi’s funeral. “He has nothing to do with the drug trade and the struggle I lead. »
“If I want to live, if the fight against drug trafficking has any meaning, I have to speak out,” then assured the 22-year-old activist, who has no intention of stopping his fight despite the murder of his brother. “This is not a warning crime, this is a crime. A political crime, a cowardly crime that kills innocent young people,” he continued.
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“Stand up, let’s fight,” Amine Kessaci then shouted, hoping that “more than 100,000 people” would gather at the white march held on Saturday in Marseille in honor of his younger brother, Mehdi.
“Mehdi died in vain”
His militant commitment to ridding working class neighborhoods of drug trafficking followed the death of his half-brother, Brahim Chabane. On 29 December 2020, the body of a Marseille youth was found in a burnt-out Audi S3, abandoned on a highway near the city of Marseille, with a bullet in the skull.
A crime allegedly committed by Amine O., who is now the head of the DZ Mafia. Even recently imprisoned in Condé-sur-Sarthe (Orne), this man nicknamed “Mamine” is also suspected of being the mastermind behind the murder of Mehdi Kessaci.
Like his loved ones, Amine Kessaci lives under police protection. Despite the danger weighing on his family, the community activist promised in a column published in Le Monde this Wednesday that he will not remain silent: “I will say and repeat that my brother Mehdi died in vain. I will say the violence caused by drug trafficking.”
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