Europe1.fr with AFP 9:17 a.m., April 8, 2024
A man in his twenties was shot dead in the city center of Marseille during the night from Sunday to Monday. According to the first elements of the investigation, four men in a car fled after the incident and their car was found burned in the 4th arrondissement.
A man in his twenties was shot dead in the city center of Marseille during the night from Sunday to Monday, AFP learned from police sources and firefighters, after initial information from BFM Marseille Provence.
Shortly before 1:00 a.m. Monday, firefighters from France's second city intervened near the Quai de la Joliette (2nd arrondissement), north of the Old Port. On their arrival, they could only note the death of the victim, killed by around ten small and large caliber bullets, notably of the Kalashnikov type. The judicial police were contacted.
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According to the first elements of the investigation, four men in a car fled after the incident and their car was found on fire in the 4th arrondissement, according to a police source. If the identity of the victim is not known, nor his possible criminal record, the process closely resembles those used during “narchomicides”.
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Since November, the pace of these assassinations has slowed considerably and, if the link with drug trafficking was proven in this case, it would be the second "narchomicide" since the beginning of the year, compared to 14 last year. in the same era.
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On January 23, a 24-year-old man, known to the courts in particular for drug trafficking, was shot and killed in an impoverished city of Marseille. To counter this trafficking, in mid-March the government launched anti-drug operations "XXL Square" throughout France and particularly in Marseille and Bouches-du-Rhône, with the reinforcement of numerous police officers.
They are intended to "put a stop to drug trafficking", indicated President Emmanuel Macron, who traveled to the Marseille city of Castellane on this occasion. Several hundred people have since been arrested throughout France, but the Ministry of Justice has, to date, given no figures on the legal action taken against them.