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Paris, Oct. 7,\u00a0(dpa\/GNA)\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The southern French city of Marseille has been rocked by a violent confrontation between two drug gangs in which the alleged perpetrators and victims are getting younger and younger.<\/p>\n
Public Prosecutor Nicolas Bessone on Monday spoke of \u201cextraordinary, unprecedented violence\u201d after a 15-year-old was stabbed and burned alive, while a 14-year-old alleged hit man is accused of shooting a cab driver in the head simply because he refused to stop.<\/p>\n
Investigators believe an ongoing fight between the \u201cDZ Mafia\u201d and the \u201cClan des Blacks\u201d over a lucrative drug sales point in the city as the trigger for the latest wave of violence, according to a report by the newspaper Le Parisien.<\/p>\n
The 15-year-old had been instructed by a 23-year-old imprisoned for drug dealing to intimidate the other side by shooting at a door, which he was then to set on fire. He reportedly was told he would be paid \u20ac2,000 ($2,200).<\/p>\n
But the job went wrong, according to Bessone. A gang member from the other side searched the 15-year-old, found a firearm and stabbed him 50 times before setting him on fire while he was still alive.<\/p>\n
In revenge for the brutal act, the imprisoned gang member who set the plot in motion is then said to have hired a 14-year-old as a hit man for \u20ac50,000.<\/p>\n
That plot, however, also failed, according to the prosecutor. He alleged that the 14-year-old thought he recognized his potential victim on the road as he was driving to his destination at night in a cab.<\/p>\n
The boy asked the driver to stop and wait, telling the driver that he had something to do. When the cab driver, a 37-year-old father, drove on instead, the 14-year-old allegedly shot him in the back of the head. GNA<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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