A man was shot dead Friday evening October 14 in Marseille, in the popular districts of the north of the city, learned AFP from concordant sources, confirming information from
Provence
.
The victim, in his twenties, was targeted around 8:00 p.m. by gunfire, in the city of the Visitation, in the 14th arrondissement.
The young man died on the spot according to the emergency services.
Friday evening, the victim's criminal record was not yet known, according to a source close to the investigation. Before this new tragedy, 28 people had been shot dead since the beginning of the year in the Bouches-du-Rhône, most often in the context of drug trafficking.
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On Tuesday, a 33-year-old man was killed in the early evening in a grocery store in Belle de Mai, a working-class district in central Marseille, hit by a bullet fired from a vehicle that fled.