Socayna, a 24-year-old student, died in September after being hit by a stray bullet in Marseille. The Minister of the Interior deplored “an absolute tragedy’.
Among the 49 deaths in 2023, against a backdrop of drug trafficking, four collateral victims were recorded. With this death, “we have reached the ultimate level” of violence linked to drug banditry, estimated the former public prosecutor of Marseille, Dominique Laurens.