Overview
- Firefighters near Marseille discovered a charred body in the trunk of a burned, stolen car in Septèmes-les-Vallons on December 25.
- The same vehicle had shortly before dropped a 45-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the jaw at Hôpital Nord, and his condition is life-threatening.
- Authorities opened an inquiry including for organized gang assassination and assigned the case to the Division of Organized and Specialized Crime.
- In Bordeaux’s Aubiers district, a man in his twenties died after being shot on Christmas night, and two suspects of similar age were arrested and taken into custody.
- Investigators in the Bordeaux case found a loaded assault rifle in an abandoned vehicle linked to the suspects, while local reporting in Marseille points to reprisals tied to drug networks.