Marseille: an imam and his son involved in a drug case

Investigators discovered drugs and cash at the home of Imam Ismaïl, head of the Bleuets mosque, which is under threat of closure, and father of the 21-year-old man, known to the police, who was thrown out of a third-floor window by a commando of five hooded men on the night of Monday to Tuesday in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône).

Thrown from the window of his ex-partner’s apartment, in a building near the Saint-Charles train station, in the 1st arrondissement of the Phocaean city, the son of Imam Ismaïl (Smaïn Bendjilali) was found by a police patrol, lying on the ground in a worrying state during the night from Monday to Tuesday. He was seriously injured with multiple fractures, particularly to the chest and legs. Admitted to hospital by the firefighters, the victim is doing better. “Today, the son of the imam is doing better, I mean that his life is no longer in danger,” he told Le Journal du Parisian a source close to the case. Information confirmed by the Marseille prosecutor’s office, which announced that the victim was out of danger.