Murder in Marseille: no link with drug trafficking, VTC, amateur footballer… who was the man murdered by a 14-year-old teenager?

Nessim Ramdane. This name is that of the VTC driver who was murdered by a 14-year-old minor in Marseille. He carried out this activity in order to “support his family” but he had the misfortune of coming across the wrong passengers.

This VTC driver declared himself to be working for the Bolt application. It is through this that the 14-year-old minor orders a ride from Nessim Ramdane. The teenager was charged, for the sum of €50,000, with executing a member of a gang in the Félix-Pyat city. While he is in Nessim Ramdane’s vehicle with an accomplice, they come across their target and therefore ask their driver to stop and wait for them. They invoke “something to do” but, for a reason which has not yet been clarified, the VTC driver refuses the request.

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It was then that “the 14-year-old minor took out his 357 Magnum that he had on his belt and shot him fatally in the back of the head”, in the words of Nicolas Bessone, public prosecutor of Marseille. The murderer fled while the deceased’s Renault Kadjar continued its course before crashing into a wall next to a school and a college.

“He was only doing his job that evening”

Nessim Ramdane had “neither directly nor remotely any link with drug trafficking”, assures the public prosecutor of Marseille. “He was only doing his job that evening,” he adds.

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The man was very appreciated, particularly for his activity as a sports instructor. He had managed to build a local reputation as an amateur footballer. He was known as an “uneventful” person, described Provence. “He didn’t drink, didn’t take any drugs, didn’t even smoke a cigarette. He was an honest worker, who lived for his family,” testifies one of his relatives.

​​​​Anthony Alexanian, his former sports director, explains that he had tried to set up a consulting business but that “it was a little complicated” and that it was precisely “to make ends meet” that he he had become a VTC driver.

A true football enthusiast

Besides work and family, football was a very important part of his life. He tried to become a professional and was successful, according to a family member cited by Provenceto get a few tries, particularly at OM, without success. He had a long career in amateur football where he played for the clubs of Endoume, Château Gombert, Gignac, Fos-sur-Mer, Carnoux FC, Saint-Zacharie and finally Six-Fours, in the Var. He started there in August.

Wherever he went, he seemed to leave behind excellent memories. He has regularly been captain and is described as a player “with an exemplary mentality, a winner”. Tributes from his former clubs multiplied following the news of his tragic death.

His last club speaks of a “faithful friend”, a “super dad”, a “great enthusiast” but above all, a “man with a big heart”. In short, an “example”. For Fabrice Coulomb, the sports director of the Carnoux Football Club through which he worked, he was “an upright and respectful man whose values ​​always commanded the admiration of those who knew him”.

All his clubs offered their condolences to his family. A minute of silence will be observed this Sunday, October 6 at 3 p.m. during the match between his former club Carnoux FC and Luynes.