Prisoner of the washing traces on the second flooring of the Bel Horizon tower in Marseille, a big teddy bear appears dissatisfied to have ended up there. On the fourth flooring of the ocher and patched facade, a inexperienced blind fights in opposition to the gusts. At the identical window, hanging from a cable, two pairs of sneakers, black and pink t-shirts, in addition to a cohort of pants face the mistral-fight of January.
No one will ship these garments from the wind. On Christmas Eve 2025, the mom of this condominium fell into the void, bounced in opposition to the now twisted shutters of the decrease ranges, and ended up on the bottom beneath “a white tarpaulin”, remembers Josselin, a 45-year-old safety guard who got here that night to assist his sick mom within the tower the place he grew up. Stunned by the beacons put in place by the police and by the presence of fireside vehicles, he tried to guard his 2-year-old son, whom he was holding by the hand, from this scene.
On the staircase of the constructing, subsequent to the fourth flooring condominium, white inscriptions on the yellow partitions: “Not at night son of a bitch” And “Close the windows, last warning after I break everything” threaten the noisy Bilal, the person who lived there. On the entrance door, massive crimson adhesive tape bearing the phrases “national police” And “sealed do not open” maintains a cardboard label with a number of packing containers. Nature of the offense: spousal homicide. Case: in opposition to Bilal B. Content of the seal: sufferer’s condominium. “Traces of struggle in the apartment”, “intoxicated state of the author, already known for violence”. Marseille’s judicial establishments won’t say far more about this alleged femicide, the second homicide that occurred in a month in Bel Horizon, after the loss of life of an 18-year-old throughout a settling of scores on the finish of November 2025.
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