# assassination of Mehdi Kessaci: the “top of the spectrum of organized crime” suspected
The “high end of the organized crime spectrum” is the most likely culprit behind the assassination in broad daylight of Mehdi kessaci on Thursday, November 13 in Marseille, estimated Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau, in charge of the inquiry, on France Info.
In “looking for the context of this terrible and scandalous assassination” which has paralyzed Marseille ever since, “we say that the victim was not targeted because he was someone who participated in drug trafficking and who was therefore a rival; he was not a collateral victim either, that is to say that no one else seems to have been targeted alongside him, and that (Mehdi Kessaci) seems to have been targeted,” listed the Paris prosecutor on Wednesday evening.
“So the third hypothesis was obviously that of his habitat (…) and obviously his brother (Amine Kessaci, Editor’s note), who is known in Marseille to be an opponent (…) of the deployment of drug trafficking” in the Marseille city,she added.
Therefore, “those who were capable of this type of scandalous behavior were considered…