A man in his twenties was found dead this Friday morning, shot dead in Marseille, in the Belle de Mai district, in a city known to harbor drug trafficking, AFP learned from sources. policewomen.
The victim, who had a gunshot wound to the face, was found "
in an uncrowded cul
-de-sac ", according to the firefighters who arrived around 6:40 a.m.
A doctor from the SMUR quickly declared the death.
This is the 30th death by bullets in the Bouches-du-Rhône since the beginning of the year, mostly in Marseille, and most often against a backdrop of drug trafficking, according to an AFP count.
With this figure, the year 2022 is approaching 2016, one of the worst years in terms of homicides since the beginning of the century, with 31 deaths in total.
The investigation, entrusted to the judicial police, has not yet made it possible to determine the circumstances of this homicide or the profile of the victim and his or her attackers.
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In October alone, four men were shot dead in this same 3rd arrondissement, in the center of Marseille and one of the poorest in the city, where the Belle de Mai district is located.
The last of these victims was a 33-year-old man, killed on October 11 in a grocery store by a bullet fired from a vehicle which had fled.
The track of the settling of accounts is favored by the investigators, the man being known for narcotics cases.
The city of Moulin de Mai had already hit the headlines in October 2020 with the death of a 19-year-old young woman, a simple passenger in a vehicle shot at near a drug point in the neighborhood.
If the driver of the vehicle was known for drug trafficking, the young woman had been considered a collateral victim.
