Three months before the charred remains of Fatma Khaldi’s 22-year-old son, Reda, were found in a burnt-out car in the countryside near Marseilles, he told her something she will never forget.
“Unfortunately I am trapped in this world,” he said. “The only way out is prison or death.”
He was killed along with two other men one evening in December 2020, in one of the most brutal single episodes in a war between Kalashnikov-wielding drug gangs for control of France’s third city.
