The body of a charred man was found in the night from Monday to Tuesday near a burning vehicle in a popular district of the 3rd arrondissement of Marseille, we learned from the prosecutor's office.
The Marseille prosecutor's office has opened an investigation into the charges of "murder in an organized gang and criminal association for the commission of a crime in an organized gang," he told AFP, confirming initial information from La Provence and BFM Marseille Provence.
'Killed by several bullets'
The investigation was entrusted to the judicial police. According to La Provence, the young man was probably killed by several bullets before his body was burned near the Belle-de-Mai district. This neighborhood had already been the scene of homicides last year: a man in his twenties was found dead with a gunshot wound in December, and in October, a 33-year-old man succumbed to his injuries after being shot from a vehicle, all against a backdrop of drug trafficking.
If this new homicide is indeed linked to drug trafficking, it would be the 26th of the year in the Phocaean city, according to an AFP report. 32 people had lost their lives in 2022 in the Bouches-du-Rhône, against a backdrop of drug trafficking. Saturday, a young man of 17 years, unknown to the police, who had been Thursday the target of multiple shots in the chest at the city of Tourmarines, in the Cabucelle in the 15th arrondissement of the city, died of his wounds. The case had also been referred to the judicial police.