According to the first elements of the investigation, entrusted to the Marseille gendarmerie, the husband’s profile could shed light on the context around this drama.
Because if no track is for the moment officially favored, the assumption of a settlement of accounts against the backdrop of drug trafficking, which are multiplying in France, was envisaged on Sunday, said a source close to the file.
According to this source, the husband, injured in the shooting, 25 years old and originally from the city of Cavaillon (south-east), is well known to the police, with 26 mentions in the file of judicial history treatment (TAJ), in particular for offenses to the drugs on drugs and organized crime.
While the marriage had just ended, hooded men with “several types of weapons” tumbled and opened fire to the bride and groom while they left the party by car, before fleeing on foot.
Died are the bride, 27, and one of the attackers. According to a source familiar with the file, the latter was struck by the couple’s car who was retreating while trying to flee.
The autopsies of the bodies of the two victims, scheduled for the start of the week, should make it possible to determine how the man died on the scene died, and in particular if the ball which touched him was drawn by one of his accomplices, by the husband or by relatives of the family.
Two people were also seriously injured and hospitalized, the husband and a 13 -year -old minor who was aboard the couple’s car. A woman was more slightly injured in the shots.
