The case of attempted carjacking, suffered by Olympique de Marseille players Faris Moumbagna and Jean Onana, is growing more and more as the days go by. We learned on Monday that the two Olympians had been attacked, with gunshots, when they had just left the OM training center the previous night at the wheel of their vehicle.
Provence reveals this Wednesday new elements on this scary chase on Boulevard des Libérations, in Marseille (12th arrondissement). The events took place around 3:15 a.m., a few hours after the final day of Ligue 1 and the Olympian success in Le Havre (1-2). The Range Rovers of Faris Moumbagna and Jean Onana then found themselves chased by a vehicle, while Marseille defender Bamo Meïté was not far away at the wheel of his Toyota Yaris.
“All hypotheses remain considered”
An individual therefore opened fire at least three times on the 4x4s, with one bullet hitting Jean Onana’s vehicle in the trunk and two others hitting the door of Faris Moumbagna, driver of the lead car. He then accelerated to escape his attackers and ended his race with an accident against a pylon. Unharmed but shocked, like his partners Jean Onana and Bamo Meïte, the Cameroonian international saw help arrive shortly after, while the attackers fled without leaving the slightest trace.
The Marseille prosecutor’s office opened an investigation entrusted to the judicial police (PJ) on Monday morning. As the facts are described as “attempted intentional homicide”, they were referred to the Banditry Repression Brigade (BRB). And after these first two days of investigation, “all hypotheses remain considered”, indicated Tuesday to Provence the public prosecutor Nicolas Bessone. The carjacking attempt is therefore not the only one, since it could be a “mistake” by the attackers.