Violence still mourns Marseille. At least three people died and three others are between life and death, hit in three shootings on the night of Sunday to Monday, in the popular neighborhoods of the north of the city, consumed by drug trafficking, according to the police.
These shootings also left five wounded, whose vital prognosis is not engaged, according to the Prefecture of Police of Bouches-du-Rhône and sailors-firefighters, confirming initial information from BFM Marseille Provence. The investigations were entrusted to the judicial police. With the three deaths of this night, 13 people have been shot dead since the beginning of the year in the Phocaean city.
Victims in their twenties
The victims of these three shootings, all men, are in their twenties. A first shooting broke out around midnight near the city of Castellas, in the 15th arrondissement. Then a second not far away, on the other side of the A7 motorway, near the city of Aygalades, also one of these high places of drug trafficking that have led to several settling of scores this year, against a backdrop of territorial struggles. It was in this first shooting, in Castellas, that the police recorded the first two deaths of that night. These two shootings also left six people injured, including one between life and death.
Shortly before 01 a.m., a third shooting broke out in the 2nd arrondissement of Marseille, towards Vincent-Leblanc Street, near the port district of La Joliette. One victim shot was pronounced dead and two others are in absolute emergency.
- Marseille
- PACA
- Shooting
- Northern Districts
- Violence
- Drug trafficking