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Bruce Dombolo

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Bruce Dombolo
Personal information
Full name Bruce Pungu Dombolo
Date of birth (1985-05-27)27 May 1985
Place of birth Marseille, France
Date of death 15 March 2025(2025-03-15) (aged 39)
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
–2003 Auxerre
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2003–2004 Ancona 2 (0)
2004–2005 Pro Vasto 10 (1)
2008–2009 Marignane 9 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Bruce Pungu Dombolo (27 May 1985 – 15 March 2025) was a French footballer and actor.

After a brief sports career, he fell into banditry and was convicted twice for robberies, spending several years in prison.[1]

Background

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Of Congolese origin, Dombolo born on May 27, 1985, in Marseille[2] and spent his childhood in Vitrolles in the Pins district, then in Liourat.[3]

Dombolo died in his sleep on the night of 15 March 2025, at the age of 39.[4][5]

Football career

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Dombolo played for the youth side of Auxerre. He transferred to Italian Serie A club Ancona and made two league appearances during the 2003–04 season. He joined Serie C2 side Pro Vasto for the following season, but subsequently played for amateur sides.[6]

Banditry and post-prison life

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After a brief sports career, Dombolo fell into banditry and was arrested for a first time for robbery.[7]

After his release from prison, he set up his own gang and committed several robberies in the region. He and his team were arrested and convicted in 2012 of the robbery of a jewelry store in a shopping mall in Puget-sur-Argens in the Var region two years earlier.[2]

Dombolo was a candidate in the television show Le Grand Oral on France 2 in February 2020.[3]

In 2021, director Akim Isker directed him in the France 2 TV film L'enfant de personne, starring Isabelle Carré and Nawell Madani, which sheds light on some of the realities of children's lives in child welfare homes. Akim Isker then cast him in the role of a police lieutenant in the TF1 series, "Visions".[8]

Dombolo died on March 16, 2025, at the age of 39, in his sleep.[9]

Filmography

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Television

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  • 2021: L'Enfant de personne: Djibril
  • 2022: Visions: Ruben Sadri
  • 2022: Sage-Homme: Prince

References

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  1. ^ "Ex-footballeur puis braqueur, l'acteur Bruce Dombolo est mort". lequipe.fr (in French). 17 March 2025. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  2. ^ a b rédaction, La (13 November 2012). "Assises du Var: six jeunes répondent de deux vols à main armée". Var-Matin (in French). Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  3. ^ a b "Bruce Dombolo, l'ex-caïd vitrollais passe le grand oral sur France 2". LaProvence.com (in French). 4 February 2020. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
  4. ^ "Mort de Bruce Dombolo, ancien braqueur devenu acteur, à l'âge de 39 ans". BFMTV (in French). 16 March 2025. Retrieved 17 March 2025.
  5. ^ à 15h37, Par Yves Jaeglé Le 16 mars 2025 (16 March 2025). "Footballeur, braqueur, acteur… le destin tragique de Bruce Dombolo, mort dans son sommeil à 39 ans". leparisien.fr (in French). Retrieved 17 March 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ "Bruce Dombolo – Allo Ciné". Allo Ciné. 19 March 2025. Retrieved 19 March 2025.
  7. ^ "Bruce Dombolo – Allo Ciné". Allo Ciné. 19 March 2025. Retrieved 19 March 2025.
  8. ^ "Bruce Dombolo – Allo Ciné". Allo Ciné. 19 March 2025. Retrieved 19 March 2025.
  9. ^ "« Scènes de ménages » : un acteur de la série de M6 est mort à l'âge de 39 ans". L'union. 18 March 2025. Retrieved 19 March 2025.
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