Three people were indicted on Saturday, January 8, five days after the shooting murder of a 21-year-old young man in Marseille at a florist
Three people were indicted on Saturday, January 8, five days after the shooting murder of a 21-year-old young man in Marseille at a florist, in broad daylight, we learned from the prosecution.
“A judicial investigation was opened of the counts of intentional homicide with premeditation in organized gang, criminal association with a view to committing a crime and […] possession of weapons, ”said the prosecutor of the Republic of Marseille, Dominique Laurens.
Tuesday at midday, the victim, a 21-year-old man with no criminal record, “was ordering flowers to celebrate his engagement”, north of the city, when he was targeted “with one and probably two 9mm caliber handguns ”. According to the same source, the two direct authors “were assisted in their business by a female person who was behind the wheel of a vehicle with which they fled and which was abandoned”.
Many weapons
The investigators quickly found the car in Marseille and then were able to identify the three criminals, who were arrested in Brignoles, in the Var, as of Tuesday afternoon.
The three indicted are two men aged 25 and 28 with a criminal record, remanded in custody, and a 22-year-old woman with no previous record. At their home, investigators seized numerous weapons. The prosecution evoked Tuesday “a modus operandi akin to a settling of scores”.
In 2021, 15 people died in settling of scores in the Bouches-du-Rhône linked to drug trafficking, according to an initial count from the police headquarters.