LThe murder of his brother, Mehdi, 20, sent shockwaves through Marseille and across France. Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez, who recently denounced the “crime of intimidation”, even spoke of a “critical point” in the conflict linked to drug trafficking in Marseille. After several days of silence, Amine Kessaci, the activist known for his fight against drug trafficking in Marseille, spoke out in an article published in World.
“(Tuesday), I buried my sister, and today I speak,” he said in the text published Wednesday, November 19. “I speak and I will not be silent because my mother taught me not to bow my head. I speak, since mourning, from the center of my suffering, to demand justice for my loved ones, but also for all the other victims. I speak because I can only fight if I do not want to die. I speak because I know that silence is protection from our enemies. I speak because I want a thousand voices to rise. May our rebellion against drug trafficking be long-lasting and collective. Let us rise together. We cannot kill an entire people,” wrote the activist.
“Mehdi died in vain”
He denounced the “vain death”: “I will say and repeat that Mehdi died in vain”, lamented Amine Kessaci, who stressed that his younger brother was “only guilty for being his brother”. He blamed the “cowardice of the sponsors”: “I would say the violence of the drug trade. Its stranglehold. I would say the cowardice of those who ordered these crimes. I would say the madness of those who carry out the contracts, destroying lives and staining their souls forever. I would say to penetrate the silence as they penetrate the bodies of our loved ones,” he stressed.
He also stressed: «We are beaten to destroy us, to tame us, to enslave us. This is what traffickers do: they try to wipe out all resistance, to destroy all will, to stop the embryo of rebellion from expanding their power over our lives. »
“A fight to the death is underway”
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What about political commentary and redress for his brother’s murder? “We were not deceived by anything,” wrote Amine Kessaci. I heard beautiful words, sudden voluntary speech. I saw their sad posture and tomorrow they will continue their journey as if nothing had happened (…). »
The activist called on the country to “understand that a struggle to the death is underway”, and denounced “deficiencies”, “deprivations”, “abandoned territories and obliterated populations”: “It is time to act, for example to return public services to neighborhoods, to confront the failure of education that provides traffickers with a docile workforce, to provide investigators and the police with the tools they need, to strengthen, to truly support the families of victims of drug trafficking. We count our deaths, but what is the state doing? »
