Overview
- Police sources told La Provence the most credible hypothesis is that the gunmen were seeking Amine Kessaci rather than his brother Mehdi.
- Investigators reached that view after recent custodial detentions, while stressing there is no decisive new evidence and the inquiry remains active.
- Mehdi Kessaci, 20, was shot in November 2025 as he waited in an Audi Q3 outside the Claudie-d’Arcy medical center in Marseille.
- Mehdi had no police record, and Amine is a well-known anti-narcotics activist and city council member who had faced threats and received police protection since mid-September.
- La Provence’s update follows a Le Parisien report on the mistaken-target theory, and Amine said he trusts investigators and continues to live under protection.