Murder of Mélodie: the secret history of the Marseille lovers. The 34-year-old young woman was found dead in mid-December following Bamba's confession.
A few hours before the discovery of her body, the night of December 15, her ex-lover confessed. He allegedly killed her with several gunshots in a fit of uncontrolled anger. The culmination of an investigation initially opened for worrying disappearance, expanded to charges of kidnapping and sequestration then for drug trafficking.