After more than a year of procedure, the 34 -year -old fugitive, suspected of being involved in four accounts of drug trafficking, must arrive in France where several judges are waiting to be able to question him.
by Luc Leroux (Marseille, correspondent)
He was one of the most awaited fugitives by the judges responsible for the fight against drug trafficking: the Marseillais Karim Harrat, 34, was handed over to the French authorities on Tuesday, February 14. He was arrested on November 14, 2021 at Casablanca airport, based on a European arrest warrant. The Moroccan extradition procedure will have lasted more than a year and aimed at its possible involvement in four settling files that have made a total of seven dead, voluntary homicides in organized gang committed between December 2018 and December 2020. The agenda judicial of the one we nickname “back” or “arafat” promises to be dense in the coming weeks.
Upon his arrival in France, he should be led to the Paris court, in the office of the investigating judge Matthieu Bonduelle who investigates the assassination of Florent N’Gondo. This 30-year-old Marseillais had succumbed, on December 2, 2018 around 2 a.m., at twenty-five automatic weapons shots, at the exit of a chicha bar of 20
Present in the capital for the recording of an album by rapper from Marseille Elams, which he produced, Florent N’Gondo was asked by Karim Harrat, who was going to settle in Dubai, to manage “Les Stores” , one of the three drug points located in the Marseille city of La Paternal. He could have been killed for not having settled his due to Karim Harrat, according to one of the tracks explored by the investigation.
dazzling ascent
His ascent in the world of drugs is presented as dazzling, like these young, pressed traffickers who are impatient to play the leading roles and tear the points of Deal with Kalashnikov. His criminal record reflects a short past as a bank card thief after being seen, without being worried, in the early 2010s in the shadow of traffic in the Cité Bassens, one of the most important in Marseille. With the arrest of the chiefs for a triple settlement of accounts, he will climb the four to four ladder. According to “Tatoo”, the nickname of a trafficker who multiplies accusations and confessions, “today, the head of the pyramid is Karim Harrat, but at that time, it was still the dog of the band . That is why it is called Rantanplan or the start “.
installed in Dubai where he would have acquired a house, living high train like a good number of refugee drug barons in the United Arab Emirates, Karim Harrat is suspected of having drawn the strings of young teams eager to “own” a network , their grail. “Tatoo” explained to the judges these drug warnings piloted from abroad: “They send young young people to fire and they look at what it gives. If it does not work, too bad, these are the young who are killed. [Young people] are unconscious, they idolize [the barons]. “
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