A 31-year-old man was shot dead with a heavy weapon in a northern district of the city this Saturday, reports
La Provence
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He was well known to the Marseille police for drug trafficking.
Several heavy weapon cases, caliber 7.62 mm, were found on the scene, specifies the regional daily.
Passers-by discovered the body lying on the sidewalk shortly before 9 p.m.
According to a police source, the victim was riding a scooter when he was chased by people in a vehicle who opened fire on it.
A little later, a car was found set on fire with two assault rifles in it.
This is the seventh fact of this type, suggesting a settling of accounts, committed in the city since the beginning of the year.
The judicial police were in charge of the investigation.
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