The trial over the murder of three men whose bodies were found burned in 2020 has opened in southern France, in a case illustrating the extreme violence of the country’s drug gangs.
The proceedings began on Monday in Aix-en-Provence under tight security, with 11 masked police officers positioned in the defendants’ dock, while an armed security presence patrolled the streets around the courthouse.
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