Overview

• Residents alerted emergency services to a stolen car being set ablaze in northern Marseille, where officers discovered a man shot in the head inside the trunk
• The victim’s body has not been identified and forensic teams are working to establish his identity
• The homicide inquiry has been assigned to the judicial police’s Division de la criminalité organisée et spécialisée
• Investigators say the combination of arson attempt and execution-style shooting suggests narcobanditisme, although no formal link to drug trafficking has been made
• If confirmed as drug-related, it would be the eighth suspected ‘narchomicide’ in Bouches-du-Rhône this year following record-high killings in 2023 and 2024