A 23-year-old was killed on Sunday evening in a shooting in the Bricarde district of Marseille.

Another 26-year-old man was seriously injured, shot in the abdomen, reveals

La Provence

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The facts took place on Sunday around 11:15 p.m. on the occasion of a probable settling of accounts against the background of drug trafficking.

The investigation will nevertheless have to determine it.

The victim known to the police

Two individuals burst into the car to head down a building and open fire on the two victims before fleeing.

More than a dozen casings were found on the spot, according to the regional daily stating that the deceased was not from the neighborhood.

However, the man was known to the police to have been involved in several drug trafficking cases.

It would be the fourteenth victim killed by bullets in Marseille since the beginning of the year.


On May 23, bikers riding a scooter had already shot a 22-year-old man in the head, this time in the city of Castellas.

Five days later, a 19-year-old was killed in a shootout in the city's 3rd arrondissement.

A young man shot dead in the northern districts of Marseille

A young man killed in a probable new settling of scores in Marseille

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