Bullets whistled again on the A7 motorway. A young man was shot dead and his brother was wounded overnight from Sunday to Monday, while they were traveling between Aix-en-Provence and Marseille.
Around midnight, emergency services received a call for an injured person on the side of the highway, said Dominique Laurens, Marseille prosecutor.
A "Kalashnikov-type" weapon
A car is then found a little further away with its passenger who died of several bullets fired by a “Kalashnikov-type” weapon, she adds.
The victim, aged 19, was fatally shot in the chest and face, said a police source. Her 25-year-old brother was also hit by the projectiles. Its vital prognosis is not engaged. This young man is known for drug trafficking.
A bloody year 2020 in Marseille
The facts occurred between the release of the North hospital and that of the city of Arnavaux, according to a police source. The judicial police were seized.
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If this shooting turns out to be a settling of scores linked to drug trafficking, it would be the ninth person to die in these circumstances since the beginning of the year in the Bouches-du-Rhône.
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