A 20-year-old man was shot and killed on Saturday evening in Marseille, and another 17-year-old injured, in what looks like a new settling of scores against the backdrop of drug trafficking, AFP learned from a police source.
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The facts, revealed by the daily
La Provence
, occurred around 8:15 p.m. in a working-class district in the center of Marseille (3rd arrondissement), where these two young men were the target of a shooter armed with a handgun and circulating on an electric scooter, according to a police source.
"Several bullet holes in the chest"
The older of the two victims died on the spot, the same source told AFP.
He was "
hit by several bullet holes in the chest
" and "
was in cardiorespiratory arrest when help arrived
," the daily
La Provence
said in its columns on Sunday.
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The 17-year-old, injured in the knee, was taken to hospital, the police source continued, adding that the shooter had fled.
The investigation was handed over to the federal police.
A new settling of accounts against the backdrop of drug trafficking
Questioned by AFP on the fact that this new homicide in Marseille could be a new settling of accounts against the background of drug trafficking, the public prosecutor of Marseille, Dominique Laurens, confirmed that "
this seems to be the case indeed
".
In fact, the shooting took place while the two men targeted were very close to a "
stup point
", specifies
La Provence
.
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Eleven people have been shot dead since the beginning of the year in the Bouches-du-Rhône, and two by stabbing, mostly in Marseille, most often against the background of drug trafficking, according to the count of the AFP.
