Three people were indicted on Saturday, five days after the shooting murder of a 21-year-old young man in Marseille at a florist, in broad daylight. “A judicial investigation was opened of the counts of intentional homicide with premeditation in an organized band, association of criminals with a view to committing a crime and (…) possession of weapons”, indicated Saturday by letter the public prosecutor of the Republic of Marseilles , Dominique Laurens.
Tuesday at midday, the victim, a 21-year-old man with no criminal record, “was ordering flowers to celebrate his engagement”, north of the city, according to the prosecution, when he was targeted “with one and probably two 9mm caliber handguns ”.
“An operating mode akin to settling accounts”
According to the same source, the two direct authors “were assisted in their business by a female person who was behind the wheel of a vehicle with which they fled and which was abandoned”.
The investigators quickly found the car in Marseille and then were able to identify the three criminals, who were arrested in Brignoles (Var) on Tuesday afternoon. The three indicted are two men aged 25 and 28 with a criminal record, remanded in custody, and a 22-year-old woman with no previous record. At their home, investigators seized many weapons. The prosecution evoked Tuesday “a modus operandi akin to a settling of scores”.