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Marseille: three men known for drug trafficking killed

2021-08-22T08:13:24.487Z


This weekend, two settlements of scores took place at the same time in different districts of the Marseille city.


Three men, known for drug trafficking, died in two probable settlements in Marseille on the night of Saturday 21 to Sunday 22 August, AFP learned from a source close to the investigation.

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At around midnight, two men aged 25 and 26 were killed from several 9mm bullets and assault rifles in the city of "

La Marine Bleu

" in the 14th arrondissement, one of the poorest in Marseille, sources said. close to the investigation.

Victims known to the police

People arrived by car and shot at the victims, one of them said.

That same night, in the 4th arrondissement, in the center of the city, the police received several calls to report gunshots and that a person had been forcibly taken in a vehicle, added a source close to the investigation.

The car was found burning in the 13th arrondissement, with a charred body inside, a procedure regularly used in settling scores within Marseille banditry.

This person is said to be 27 years old.

Like the two previous victims, she was known to the police.

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It is not impossible that these two events are linked,

" said this source close to the investigation.

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While it is too early to determine the motivations of the perpetrators of this act, this new episode of violence does not undermine the determination of the State services to fight relentlessly against trafficking and the circulation of arms and to put all the means to find the perpetrators of these homicides

”, reacted to AFP the prefect of police, Frédérique Camilleri.

Source: lefigaro

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