It would be the eleventh homicide under the background of drug trafficking in Marseille and its immediate surroundings.
A 19-year-old young man was shot dead on Saturday around 8:30 p.m. in the 3rd arrondissement, reports
La Provence
.
A second youngster, a minor and aged 17, was also injured in this probable settling of scores, but his life would not be in danger.
The judicial police were in charge of the investigation.
The previous fatal shootout between traffickers in Marseille dates back to last Monday, in which a 22-year-old man was killed in a city in the northern districts.
Stabbed in front of his children, a military doctor died
A young man shot dead in the northern districts of Marseille
Miscellaneous facts
Marseilles
Reckoning
Drug traffic
Northern neighborhoods
Paca