In Marseille, the year began… with what looks very much like a settling of accounts.
On New Year's Eve, the guns spoke like on Christmas Eve which saw an 18-year-old young man, known for drug offences, shot dead in the Belle-de-Mai district (Third district).
The truce of the confectioners does not exist among the drug traffickers.
Around 1:30 a.m., on the night of Saturday to Sunday, a 26-year-old man was seriously injured by bullets at the entrance to the La Paternelle estate in the 14th arrondissement of Marseille.
According to the first elements of the investigation, a dozen casings of caliber 7.62 bullets were discovered near the victim injured in the abdomen.
On the spot, a Volkswagen brand vehicle was discovered impacted by bullets.
The victim, whose vital prognosis was engaged, was rushed to hospital.
According to our information, three men of Belgian nationality, aged 22 and 24, were arrested shortly after the incident near the North hospital aboard a white Golf GTI with German registration.
A large sum of money was found on them.
The Marseille public prosecutor's office has opened an investigation and entrusted the investigations to the Territorial Directorate of the Judicial Police (DTPJ) of Marseille.
30 gunshot deaths in 2022
The year 2023 therefore starts as it ended.
In 2022, 30 gunshot deaths were recorded in the Bouches-du-Rhône, mostly in Marseille, and most often against a background of drug trafficking.
A figure that is close to that of 2016, a dark year in terms of homicides, with 31 deaths in total.
The police prefecture has recorded, since last year, more than 60 acts of homicide or attempted homicide related to drug trafficking in the department.
Sixty shootings, sometimes in broad daylight and in the city center, which caused the death of 30 men, two thirds of whom were under 30 years old.
A rejuvenation of the victims which would be explained by a change in the nature of the shootings.
We entered into a logic of intimidation of the competitor with shootings on the neighboring deal point which now target the small hands of traffic.
For the month of October alone, four men were shot dead in the 3rd arrondissement, in the center of Marseille, one of the poorest districts of the city.
