Two people were killed overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday in the northern districts of Marseille, learned

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from a police source, confirming information from

La Provence. 

Around 11:15 p.m., in the city of Rosiers, in the 14th arrondissement of Marseille, in the northern districts, a man was stabbed in the chest.

Despite the intervention of the firefighters, the victim, who is being identified, died around 12:15 a.m. The judicial police were seized.

No link established yet

Around one o'clock in the morning, a man was discovered on the public highway with a bullet in the back of the neck, at Parc Kalliste, in the 15th arrondissement.

No casing was found near the body of the unidentified victim, which was moved.

A stolen vehicle was found not far from there, said the same source.

The hypothesis of a settlement of accounts is favored by the investigators of the judicial police.

From police sources, no link between these two murders could be established at the time of writing.

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