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Four Men Indicted Over 2025 Mistaken-Door Killing in Marseille

Authorities say the case is tied to a suspected narcotrafficking score-settling and the indictments mark a major step in a months-long organised-crime probe.

Quatre hommes ont été mis en examen à Marseille pour la mort d'une femme victime d'une erreur de cible
La victime avait été tuée par un tir d'arme de poing à travers sa porte d'entrée en pleine nuit, le 8 juillet 2025.
La victime était connue des services judiciaires.

Overview

  • On July 8, 2025 a woman in her 40s was shot through her apartment door in Marseille's 5th arrondissement and died, an attack investigators quickly concluded was a mistaken-target killing.
  • After months of work by specialised criminal units, police carried out a large operation on June 2 that led to the arrest of 11 people with support from RAID and canine teams.
  • Four men in their twenties were presented to a judge on June 5 and formally indicted for assassination in an organised gang and related charges, and two of them were placed in pre-trial detention.
  • Investigators and a source close to the file say the killing appears linked to a settling of scores in a narcotrafficking context while the prosecutor has emphasised the victim was not the intended target.
  • The case highlights ongoing narcobanditism in Marseille, which official figures put at 17 deaths in 2025, and it could increase scrutiny of organised‑crime policing and the pace of prosecutions in the city.