Alleged Marseille Drug Lord Faces Multiple Charges After Extradition from Morocco

Suspected of being behind the murder of a 30-year-old Marseille man, a rapper’s producer, killed on December 2, 2018 by 25 gunshots outside a shisha bar in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, Karim Harrat had been indicted on February 15, the day after his extradition to France, by a Parisian investigating judge for "murder in an organized gang and criminal conspiracy".

After his transfer to Marseille and his appearance three times before an investigating judge of the Specialized Inter-Regional Jurisdiction, he was indicted for the assassination of a young drug trafficker belonging to a well-known clan and another man in the room of a hotel in a commercial area between Marseille and Aix-en-Provence, on August 30, 2019; the death of a 19-year-old man whose brother was injured on the A7 motorway and a triple murder committed on December 29, 2020 in Châteauneuf-les-Martigues (Bouches-du-Rhône), the Marseille prosecutor’s office said.

Indicted for murder and criminal conspiracy and placed in pre-trial detention in each of these four cases, the alleged cannabis trafficker living in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône) of Algerian origin "contests", according to his lawyers Thomas Bidnic and Philippe Jacquemin "all of these facts."