A 37-year-old man was shot dead Friday evening June 5 in the heart of Marseille, in a probable settlement of accounts, just over 48 hours after almost similar events in another city of Marseille, the prosecution said.
The man, "well known to the police for narcotics cases", was shot dead by several 9 mm automatic pistol bullets while driving in a car near the city of Félix-Pyat, he said. AFP the deputy public prosecutor of Marseille, Patrice Ollivier-Maurel, confirming initial information from the daily La Provence . The shooter (s) are on the run, the investigation has been entrusted to the judicial police.
If the track of the settlement of accounts is well confirmed, it would be the seventh of the year in the Bouches-du-Rhône, the sixth in Marseille.
The previous settlement of accounts had taken place overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday, in the city of Frais-Vallon, in the 13th arrondissement. A 19-year-old man was shot dead in the Kalashnikov, also driving a car, his 22-year-old passenger was seriously injured.
Ten people died in settling of scores in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in 2019, far from the 29 dead in 2016 or the 23 dead in 2018.
