Overview
- Marseille firefighters found a carbonized body in the trunk of a burning stolen car in Septèmes-les-Vallons near the city’s northern districts.
- A 45-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the jaw was dropped at Hôpital Nord by two people shortly beforehand, and his condition is critical; the same car is reported to have been used.
- An investigation for assassinat en bande organisée has been opened in Marseille and entrusted to the Division de la criminalité organisée et spécialisée (DCOS).
- In Bordeaux’s Aubiers district, a 19-year-old man died after being shot late on Dec. 25 near a known drug-dealing point; two suspects were arrested in Bruges, and an assault rifle was recovered.
- The Bordeaux case is being handled as meurtre en bande organisée by the brigade criminelle/DCOS, and authorities have not publicly linked either incident to specific gangs.