the essentials Young Marseille activist Amine Kessaci, committed against drug banditry since the assassination of his big brother in 2020, has just lost a second brother, shot and killed on Thursday in Marseille.

Amine Kessaci suffers a new shock. At only 22 years old, the young Marseille activist, a key figure in the fight against drug banditry, has just lost a second brother in an assassination. Thursday, November 13, his younger brother was shot dead in the street in Marseille, while his older brother was shot dead in 2020 in the street in Marseille.

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Northern districts of Marseille: Amine Kessaci, who fights against drug trafficking, loses a second brother shot to death

The disappearance of this second brother once again plunges Amine Kessaci into the spiral of violence in Marseille, the same violence he has been fighting for five years. It was to respond to this first tragedy that he founded the Conscience association, in 2020, with the objective of supporting families affected by crimes linked to drug networks, psychologically and legally.

The association now has 800 members and has established itself in four French cities. For Amine, these deaths must be recognized as victims, and not as forgotten statistics in the trafficking war.

Political commitment

Having become one of the best-known faces of this citizen fight, the young man also got involved in politics, under the label of the Ecologists. In 2024, he ran for European and then legislative elections in Marseille, failing by less than 900 votes in the 3rd constituency of Bouches-du-Rhône.

Shortly before, he had called Emmanuel Macron in 2021 on a visit to announce the “Marseille en grand” plan. “There’s no point in coming with a plan made in Paris. You have to build this plan with us, the local elected officials, the associations, the victims’ families,” he told her.

In October 2025, he published the book Marseille, wipe your tears. Living and dying in a land of drug traffickinga posthumous letter for his big brother.

The assassination of his younger brother arouses deep concern among the authorities. The Marseille prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation for “assassination by an organized gang” and “criminal conspiracy with a view to committing a crime”. For the moment, no link has been officially established between this murder and drug networks. But the Marseille prosecutor, Nicolas Bessone, does not exclude the hypothesis of a warning assassination, which would mark, according to him, “an additional step”.