A 21-year-old man known for drug trafficking was shot several times this Saturday evening in Marseille, in the popular districts of the city, we learned on Sunday from a police source and from the prosecution.
“The track of the settlement of accounts is privileged”, has already specified Dominique Laurens, the public prosecutor of Marseille, in view of the judicial past of the victim.
The tragedy took place around 10:00 p.m., when the victim, in a vehicle, was about to leave a service station, when he was blocked by two other vehicles in which the shooter or shooters were.
Died on the spot, despite the intervention of the firefighters, the young man was hit by several bullets, large caliber according to another source familiar with the matter.
The twentieth shooting death of the year
On the run, the authors of this ambush were still wanted this Sunday.
A vehicle that may have been used during this punitive operation was found in the evening, burnt down, just a few kilometers away, in the same 15th arrondissement of Marseille, one of these districts of the city plagued by drug trafficking.
With the death of this young man, there are now 20 deaths by bullets and three by bladed weapons that have been recorded this year in the Bouches-du-Rhône, homicides mostly committed in Marseille and against a background of trafficking in dope.
In Marseille, two men discovered dead by bullets in the night
A man found dead in the northern districts of Marseille
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