Marseille bar massacre | |
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Location | Marseille, France |
Coordinates | 43°19′55″N 5°23′02″E / 43.332°N 5.384°E |
Date | 3 October 1978 8:10 pm |
Attack type | Mass shooting |
Deaths | 10 |
Perpetrator | Unknown |
Motive | Unknown |
Marseille bar massacre refers to the mass murder of ten people in the Bar du Téléphone in Marseille, France, on 3 October 1978. Three armed gunmen entered the bar and shot everyone present in the head, with the sole survivor being the owner's wife Nicole Léoni, who was in another room. [1] The massacre was largely taken up by the French press at the time. [2]
Police believed the attack to have been part of a gang war between rival organised crime gangsters led by Tony Zampa and opposing Jack le Mat.[ citation needed] The killings were compared to the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre in the United States. [3] Pierre Michel, the investigative judge in charge of the case, was himself shot dead on 21 October 1981.[ citation needed] François Cecchi and François Girard, both gangsters of the 'French Sicilian Connection', were imprisoned for life for Michel's assassination. [4]
The case was still ongoing when Michel was killed and so far remains unsolved, as nobody has ever been convicted for the massacre. [5]
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