The corpse of a man was discovered charred in the trunk of a burning vehicle around 4 a.m. Friday morning near Marseille, we learned from police sources.
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This macabre discovery was made just hours after another homicide perpetrated early Thursday evening in a working-class housing estate in the working-class neighborhoods of Marseille, north of the city.
The body was found by the gendarmes who had been called by a motorist, alerted by flames escaping from a vehicle parked on the side of a road between Marseille and the town of Rove, said a police source. , confirming the initial information from La Provence.
The technical and scientific police will have to determine in the coming days the identity of the victim and the causes of his death and in particular whether he was shot and killed before being placed in the burned vehicle.
The investigation was handed over to the federal police.
Before this last homicide, fourteen people had died by bullets, against a background of drug trafficking, since the beginning of the year in the Bouches-du-Rhône.
