Fighting Organized Crime: How an Assassination Attempt Was Stopped in Forty-Eight Hours

French police have been monitoring the activities of traffickers subscribed to the supposedly untouchable Sky ECC app for a month, this Wednesday, February 24, 2021, when a message buried in the voice of conversations caught the attention of investigators. “Selem, how are you?” Here is his advance today, I tried the calibers, I have the cars, tomorrow I bought the outfit. Every week I notice it maxes out once or twice again and so on. Well, I’m pumped. »

These two lines predict the execution of murder. Investigators have no information on the author of the message, other than the pseudonym he uses on the Sky network: a certain “LAA”. But the looming act, which is scheduled for next Monday according to the second message, disrupts the conscientious monitoring of the discussions. There are five days left before a potential victim can be brought to safety.

On Friday, February 27, the Central Service for Combating Organized Crime is engaged in the investigation. The starting point is meager: a criminal project by an unknown victim, an unknown sponsor, and an unknown perpetrator.

Returning to the “LAA” timeline, exchanges on this criminal project have been appearing since February 11. Enriched with photographs, the discussions clearly refer to the description of the victim and the identification of his house, which is located in Val-de-Marne. It’s about logistics and material organization: testing weapons, restoring vehicles… LAA conducts its scouting according to its predator’s schedule.

During the weekend, the target is identified, informed about the inevitability of the risk taken, and sheltered. He will be heard on Monday 1^Eh Marty confirms previous research: this woman was threatened. The environment in which it thrives is a high-level drug environment.

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According to the information the worldThese are the conflicts surrounding one of the figures of the Parisian drug gang of the 2000s: Mustafa Jilali Blufa, better known by the nickname Ronaldo, referring to the Brazilian football player whose age and silhouette. The woman threatened by “LAA” was close to the trafficker.

Ronaldo, originally from Garges-lès-Gonesse (Val-d’Oise), made a name for himself by developing international cannabis and cocaine trafficking networks, thanks to direct contacts in Spain, Morocco and Venezuela. During his time in prison, he barely had time to savor his restored freedom: a few weeks after his release, in early 2020, he is the target of an ambush when he finds himself in a parking lot in his hometown. He was driving his black Mercedes. The death of Ronaldo, killed by several Kalashnikov bullets in the head, did not end the tension with the enemies. The aborted project on Sky ECC is proof of that.