Marseille drug trafficker Félix Bingui, alleged leader of the Yoda clan, was sentenced on Friday June 5 to twelve years in prison by the criminal court, which also imposed a nine-year prison sentence on his “right arm”, absent when the deliberations were read.
These sentences are significantly lower than the demands of the prosecution, which had requested sixteen years in prison against Félix Bingui and 12 against Mohamed Hussein Saleh. The court also waived the two-thirds security period requested by the public prosecutor.
The one nicknamed “the cat” was also fined €200,000. Félix Bingui, 35, had been on trial for three weeks alongside 19 co-defendants, two of whom were subject to an arrest warrant. Justice accuses him of having led, between 2021 and 2023, one of the main deal points in the northern districts of the city at the time, “La Fontaine”, in the heart of the city of La Paternal, before the Yoda clan was defeated by the DZ Mafia at the end of a bloody war between the two gangs.
Considered by investigators as the “big manager” of the network’s points of sale, Zine Eddine Belkai, on the run, was sentenced to eight years in prison. For the other defendants – alleged conveyors, supplyers, packagers, or “launderers” – most of whom appear free, the sentences range up to six years in prison, but the court pronounced four acquittals.
