Jean-Luc Martel

Background
Jean-Luc Martel grew up in a small village in the Provence as the son of a tiler and a charwoman. His father was very aggressive and hit both his wife and his son. When Jean-Luc was seventeen his father disappeared and his body was found months later. The cause of his death was a hammer that had smashed his head which was the work of his own son.

When Jean-Luc was eighteen, he started working in a restaurant that was owned by Philippe Renard, a famous gangster that was specialized on smuggling and dealing with drugs. The whole restaurant was used to do money laundering and Philippe taught Jean-Luc everything he needed to know about that business. As a thank you for that knowledge, Martel murdered him as well and took over his empire and became one of the most important drug-lords of France. Jean-Luc had been married shortly to a rather unimportant actress who during the divorce process threatened to tell the police everything she knew about her husband's real business. Shortly after that she was found dead with the cause having been an overdose of alcohol and sleeping pills. The police tried to give Martel the fault at her death and prove the murder didn't have any success. After he ended his mourning-phase, he appeared in a relationship with Olivia Watson.