No leads have yet been put forward by investigators.
A 35-year-old man, “recently released from prison”, was shot and killed this Friday morning in Ajaccio, said the Ajaccio public prosecutor, Nicolas Septe, in a press release.
The events took place shortly after 7 a.m., in the Pietralba district.
The victim, who was in a car parked in the parking lot of a bakery according to Corse Matin, was hit by “several gunshots,” said the prosecutor.
“The first investigations are focused on the collection of direct testimony from the crime scene,” specifies the magistrate, while the events took place near a bakery and a school.
Tried for drug trafficking dating back to 2015
An investigation was opened on the charge of intentional homicide and entrusted to the interdepartmental direction of the national police of Corsica-du-Sud, added the prosecutor who indicates that "several avenues are being studied, including that of a settlement of accounts against a background of drug trafficking without this avenue being able, at this stage, to be favored over the others.”
In March 2022, the man was tried with 14 other defendants by the Ajaccio criminal court for drug trafficking dating back to 2015.