Two homicides against the background of drug trafficking were recorded Thursday, July 21 in Marseille, a man stabbed in a hotel in the city center then another found in a charred vehicle overnight, in a housing estate in the poor neighborhoods of the city.
“Marseillo-Marseillais”
The first murder took place early in the afternoon, in a hotel in the city center, with the death of a young man, stabbed in the building even after being forcibly removed from his room by two other men who had rented a room opposite his, we learned from a police source on Friday.
The victim, like his two alleged attackers who are still on the run, are "
Marseillo-Marseillais, not tourists, all were known to the police for their involvement in drug cases
", the judicial police confirmed to AFP on Friday. , without however asserting that this murder is necessarily a settling of scores linked to drug trafficking.
“
It may be a private issue, these cases are often multifactorial
“, we insisted on the side of the investigators.
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A second homicide was then observed on the night of Thursday to Friday, shortly before midnight, with the discovery of a body in a charred vehicle, Parc Corot, a city in the 13th arrondissement, in the north of the city, gangrenous by the drug trafficking.
Another vehicle, possibly abandoned by the shooters, was also found charred nearby, it was said Friday morning on the side of the PJ, also in charge of this file.
An autopsy will take place during the day to determine the cause of death of this victim, for the time being unidentified, the public prosecutor of Marseille, Dominique Laurens, told AFP.
The body was in the vehicle and not in the trunk, according to investigators.
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These two new homicides bring to 17 the number of deaths by bullets and to three the number of deaths by stabbing against a background of drug trafficking in the Bouches-du-Rhône since the beginning of the year.
In 2021, the prosecution of the second city of France had identified "
36 intentional homicides or attempted intentional homicides
" in the context of cases of organized crime and drug trafficking.