Adel Santana Mendy, 22-year-old Aubagne striker, was shot dead in the night between Friday and Saturday in the 14th arrondissement of Marseille. French football in mourning.
Serious mourning in French football. He died at 22 Adel Santana Mendysoccer playerAubagne. According to information reported by the newspaper Provencein the night between Friday and Saturday the footballer was killed with a firearm in the 14th arrondissement of Marseille. The young striker had trained in the youth academy ofOlympique Marseillebefore wearing the jerseys of Côte Bleue, Marignane-Gignac and from this summer that of Aubagne.
The announcement of the club of national 2 on social networks: “The AFC has learned with great sadness of the tragic passing of Adel Santana Mendy. He will leave a great void and will remain one of us forever. All our thoughts and condolences go out to his family.”.
The news shocked all of transalpine football and sport from the early hours of Christmas Eve.
As reported by BFM Marseille, the young man was shot twice and, despite receiving medical attention from the nearest emergency room, there was nothing that could be done to revive him. 27 7.62 mm shell casings were found at the scene where the events took place.
The death was certified around 11.40 pm, with help arriving at the scene half an hour later. The judicial police of Marseilles immediately went to the scene and are carrying out the investigations: starting this morning the investigators are trying to understand if a vehicle found on fire later in the 13th arrondissement is connected to the perpetrator or perpetrators of this homocide.
Great condolences in the past few hours from all the teams in the National 2 championship, for news that no one would have ever wanted to read. Now all that remains is to wait for the evolution of the investigations to understand what happened in the night between Friday and Saturday to the young Aubagne footballer.
Trained at OM, Mendy played for the Velodrome’s Under-19 side from 2016 until 2018: he subsequently moved to Andorra and then to the English regional league before returning to Provence with FC Côte Bleue and with the Aubagne since last summer.
This season he has played 10 games in the league and one in the Coupe de France, with a goal scored last December 3rd.
