Le Figaro Marseille
It was a card game gone very wrong.
This Tuesday, February 27 in the evening, two customers of a bar were seriously injured by gunshots while they were seated in an establishment in the 9th arrondissement of Marseille,
Le Figaro
learned from corroborating police sources.
The events occurred around 11 p.m.
According to a police source, the police were called to the scene by the Marseille firefighters.
Two customers of the establishment had just been targeted by shotgun fire while they were quietly playing cards.
The two victims, aged 24 and 56, were targeted by a
“hooded man dressed in black”
who had just burst into the bar.
The latter then quickly fled after seriously injuring the two customers.
Vital prognosis committed
One of the victims was injured in the arm by lead and taken to hospital.
The second, for her part, suffered from several wounds in the chest, abdomen and arm and was transferred to intensive care at Timone with a life-threatening prognosis.
According to a police source, the two victims were known to the authorities, appearing in particular in the processing of criminal records (TAJ).
An investigation was opened and entrusted to the Bouches-du-Rhône judicial police services.