A 30-year-old man was shot dead Sunday evening in Marseille, in the north of the city, rue de Lyon, we learned on Monday from police and judicial sources, confirming information from the daily Provence. “The judicial police are seized of these facts qualified as intentional homicide with premeditation”, indicated the prosecutor of the Republic of Marseille, Dominique Laurens.
The thirty-something, who was killed with a handgun, was “judicially unknown for drug trafficking”, added the prosecutor. According to France 3 Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, this case could be related to the trafficking of cigarettes or drugs.
The fatal shootings took place around 7:00 p.m. Sunday in a street in the 15th arrondissement of Marseille, according to a police source. Despite the intervention of firefighters, the man died on the spot, according to the same source.