Alleged Marseille Drug Kingpin Extradited from Morocco to Face Murder Charges

Since Tuesday, Karim Harrat, 34, has been in the hands of the French authorities. The alleged cannabis trafficker living in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône) who was the subject of a European arrest warrant had been arrested at Casablanca airport on November 14, 2021. It took more than a year of proceedings for his extradition from Morocco to France to be effective. The Marseillais would be involved in four cases of score-settling that resulted in a total of seven deaths, intentional homicides committed in an organized gang between December 2018 and December 2020, reports Le Figaro.

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Karim must answer to the charge of murder in an organized gang, after the murder that occurred on August 3, 2020, of a 19-year-old man, shot dead with several bullets on the A7 motorway, north of Marseille. He should also be "taken to the Paris judicial court, in the office of investigating judge Matthieu Bonduelle who is investigating the murder of Florent N’Gondo." The thirty-year-old is suspected of having coldly killed this music producer with twenty-five automatic weapon shots, around 2 a.m. on December 2, 2018, at the exit of a shisha bar in the 20th arrondissement of Paris. According to one of the leads explored by the investigation, Karim Harrat may have killed him because he had not paid his due.