INFO BFMTV. The first investigations by the judicial police reveal an unthinkable scenario which resulted in the death of the victim, employed as a VTC driver. An inmate at Luynes prison gave investigators information which led to the arrest of a 14-year-old suspect.
The outlines of an unprecedented affair seem to be taking shape. According to information from BFMTV, the man killed by a bullet in the head around 4:30 a.m. on the night of October 3 to 4, in the 3rd arrondissement in Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône), was not the target of a settling of accounts.
The victim, employed as a VTC driver, had a dispute, the nature of which remains to be determined, with his passenger before the latter shot him. Very seriously injured in the back of the head, the driver then crashed his vehicle, a Renault Kadja, into the entrance of a school located not far from Saint-Charles station.
Less than an hour after the incident, a man called the police before claiming to be a member of the Marseille drug trafficking gang DZ Mafia, and explaining that he was behind this assassination.
14-year-old suspect arrested
The interlocutor, incarcerated at Luynes prison, then gave information to the police which enabled the arrest of the alleged perpetrator of the fatal shooting of the VTC driver.
The suspect, aged 14, born in Nîmes (Gard) and domiciled in Avignon (Vaucluse), had initially fled after the car accident in which the victim was. He was arrested shortly after the events and was placed in police custody in the premises of the criminal brigade of the organized and specialized crime division (DCOS). This Friday evening, his hearing was still in progress.
“The Luynes detainee specified that he had dumped the minor, recruited on social networks for an assassination project, because he had not done his job well” confides a source close to the case to BFMTV .
“He was supposed to burn his victim’s car after the murder. But doubt remains over the fact that the sponsor did not know that his hitman had not killed the person he designated.”, she continues. .
The sponsor also indicated that the planned murder was to be a “response” to the assassination committed on the night of October 1 to 2, in the city of Fonscolombes, also in the 3rd arrondissement of Marseille, where a man had been stabbed to death . His body was then burned by his murderers.
The Luynes detainee has yet to be identified. The public prosecutor of Marseille, Nicolas Bessone, plans to communicate on this “assassination” during a press conference, this Sunday, October 6, at 10:30 a.m., at the judicial court.
Stéphane Sellami and Matthias Tesson
