Overview
- Prosecutors announced Saturday that six suspects were placed under formal investigation and jailed in the November 2025 killing of Mehdi Kessaci, a 20-year-old with no ties to drug trafficking.
- The group faces counts of murder, attempted murder in an organized gang, and criminal association to prepare a crime.
- Five men were ordered into pretrial detention, and a woman who sought a delay on her detention was jailed pending the judge’s ruling.
- Police arrested ten people on Monday, and four were released after police custody, according to prosecutor Vanessa Perrée.
- The step came as Kessaci’s brother Amine, an anti-drug activist under police protection, was elected Marseille’s fourth deputy mayor.