Overview

• The attack on the wedding party killed the 27-year-old bride and one of the four assailants and left the groom, a 13-year-old and another guest seriously wounded.
• Two of the four suspects were arrested hours after the shooting and remanded in custody on charges of assassinat en bande organisée.
• One attacker was killed during the incident, possibly by return fire, and the fourth suspect remains at large as gendarmes, backed by GIGN and aerial units, conduct a manhunt.
• The case was transferred from the Avignon prosecutor’s office to Marseille’s interregional specialized jurisdiction and is being handled by the Section de recherches of the Marseille Gendarmerie.
• Authorities are probing a potential narcotics-related motive given the groom’s prior record of 26 mentions for drug trafficking in the judicial database.