A 20-year-old young man was shot dead on the night of Monday to Tuesday in a deprived district of Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône), we learned from the prosecution on Tuesday.
Shortly before midnight, he was discovered in a street in the city of Bassens, in the 15th arrondissement, according to a police source.
A second young man, aged 19, was injured in the arm during the same shooting, reveals the daily La Provence.
One of the two is known to justice, indicates the prosecutor of Marseille, Dominique Laurens, without further clarification.
The judicial police were seized.
Friday, in the same arrondissement, during a local football tournament, shots targeted two players, one of whom was fatally hit by four bullets and the other was seriously injured, hit in the head and thorax . The track of settling scores is privileged in this case. The injured 30-year-old is still in intensive care and his condition is stable, according to La Provence. In this case, the investigators favor the track of a rivalry against a background of drug trafficking, according to the regional daily, but do not rule out any hypothesis.
