A young man was shot dead and another was injured in a probable settling of accounts Sunday night in Marseille, we learned from the prosecutor.
The victim, aged 26, died on the spot, hit by several Kalashnikov bullets on the avenue Saint-Jérôme around 22:30, said Xavier Tarabeux, public prosecutor, confirming information from La Provence . A second man was wounded and evacuated to the hospital, added the prosecutor, who did not know, around midnight, "the state of his injuries".
"We are in what appears to be a settlement of account"
"We are in what appears to be a settling of accounts," said Xavier Tarabeux. Ten men have died since the beginning of the year in settling scores in the Bouches-du-Rhone, most of them in Marseilles. On 2 September, a 26-year-old man was shot dead in the City of Mail, aboard a car found on fire in Chateauneuf-lès-Martigues.