A 15-year-old teenager was stabbed 50 times and burnt alive in France.

A 15-year-old boy was “stabbed 50 times” and burned alive in the southeastern French city of Marseille this week. Case of violence apparently drug-relatedThe prosecutor’s office gave this information on Sunday.

The Marseille prosecutor, Nicolas Besson, told the press that the young man had been murdered on Wednesday and that the case was “Unprecedented barbarity.”

Marseille is also the second largest city in France. One of the most impoverished, plagued by drug-related violence.

Besson said the victims and perpetrators of these types of cases are increasingly younger.

For some years now, this Mediterranean city has been suffering a regional war between several clans for control of the lucrative drug market.

A 23-year-old inmate hired the teen to intimidate a competitor through social networks by setting fire to his door, the prosecutor said. They promised to give him 2,000 euros (about $2,100).

However, the teen was discovered by members of a rival gang, who stabbed him dozens of times before setting him on fire.

The same inmate then recruited a 14-year-old boy to seek revenge and asked him to kill a rival gang member for $50,000.

While he was on his way to execute his mission, the juvenile allegedly asked the driver of the car in which he was sitting to wait for him, but when he refused, the minor shot him in the head. Killed.

With these last two cases, The number of drug-related murders in Marseille has increased to 17 since the beginning of the year.

A total of 49 people died in drug-related violence in Marseille in 2023.