Two young administrative agents from Marseille's judicial court were placed under investigation on December 5 for illegally accessing files for someone linked to the DZ Mafia. One of them allegedly sold this access, with more severe involvement for the other. Judicial measures include professional bans and prosecutorial appeals.
On December 5, two administrative agents employed at Marseille's judicial court were placed under investigation for serious offenses involving the illegal access of databases. Investigations show that one of them, a temporary worker, accessed files on about fifty profiles, including eight linked to assassination cases. These actions are charged as misusing personal data processing, breaching professional secrecy, and revealing investigation secrets to a potentially involved person.
The probe uncovers ties to the DZ Mafia, a criminal group in Marseille. The ex-boyfriend of this agent, known only for domestic violence, is the cousin of Mehdi Laribi, alias 'Tic,' whom judicial police identify as the organization's leader. This associate, also a friend of a major narcotrafficker who fled after a prison leave, was himself indicted for passive corruption and criminal conspiracy. Placed under judicial supervision despite detention requests, he faces a prosecutorial appeal.
The two agents, working in the court's civil service, show differing levels of involvement: occasional for the first, more extensive and paid for the second. The investigating judge imposed judicial control with a professional ban on the first. For the second, although the prosecutor sought pretrial detention, the liberties judge chose strict judicial control, barring her from Marseille's courthouse and jobs in the Justice, Interior, and Defense ministries. The prosecutor appealed this ruling, to be reviewed soon by the instruction chamber of the Aix-en-Provence appeals court.
These events highlight risks of criminal infiltration into judicial institutions, amid intensified efforts against narcotrafficking in Marseille.