The drama which took place on the evening of Saturday December 21 to Sunday December 22 in the city center of La Seyne-sur-Mer still contains many mysteries. We take stock of a strange double homicide.
What happened that night?
Around 10:30 p.m. Saturday evening, two people, apparently a couple, were shot dead on rue Marceau. The man was shot three times in the head, the woman once.
Their lifeless body was found in the back room of the nighttime grocery store “Alimentation and Brunch”. A business that this couple had recently taken over, the father of the killed man being the legal manager of the store.
It appears that the two victims were not domiciled in Var, but still in Marseillewhere they were from, at the time of the terrible tragedy. A neighbor raised the alarm around 11 p.m. after hearing screams.
“I didn’t see anything, I close at 8 p.m., and I didn’t know the victims, they had been living there for two months”indicated Sunday the manager of the bar located opposite the grocery store.
Who are the victims?
One of the victims was identified as “a man aged 29”, born in 1995, according to police.
At this point, little information has leaked about the identity of his partner. It would be a 31-year-old woman, born in 1993 in Türkiye.
The man was known to the police and justice services in Marseille, where he was convicted ten years ago for drug trafficking.
According to our colleagues at BFM Toulon, he had already been indicted for acts “criminal association with a view to preparing a crime and violation of weapons legislation”. He was under judicial supervision.
Where is the investigation?
The Toulon judicial police (DCOS) and the Var interdepartmental police department (DIPN) are in charge of the investigation. The bodies of the two victims will be autopsied during the first week of January.
A large number of national and municipal police officers and firefighters, joined by Lydie Onteniente, deputy mayor, permanent elected officialwas deployed on site on Sunday.
This double murder raises the question of security in the city center of La Seyne. “To me, this affair smacks of settling scores“said Cheikh Mansour, deputy delegate for security for the City, on Sunday.
He spoke on BFM Toulon “a certain sadness” after the death of the couple, and a tragedy “of extreme violence, which greatly shocked the people of Seynois”.
“At La Seyne, we have a problem with businesses staying open at night. Their activity creates too much nuisance, especially for people who work the next day and live above.” he added to Var-matin.
According to BFM, “80 checks” had recently been carried out in the night grocery stores of La Seyne. “We asked the prefecture to organize an urgent meeting in order to deal with this recurring problem which is causing numerous problems for the public security of residents”he added.
A man arrested
According to our information, an individual was arrested during the same night from Saturday to Sunday in La Beaucairein possession of 9mm ammunition, while trying to get rid of clothes.
The man was taken into custodywithout a formal link having yet been established with this double murder.
