A man was shot dead on Friday evening in Marseille, in the working-class neighborhoods in the north of the city, we learned from concordant sources, confirming information from Provence. The victim, aged about 20, was targeted around 8 p.m. by firearm fire, in the city of the Visitation, in the 14th arrondissement.
The young man died on the spot according to the emergency services. According to the regional daily, the track of a settling of scores against the backdrop of drug trafficking is favored by investigators. The victim was indeed known for this type of facts.
Before this new tragedy, 28 people had been shot dead since the start of the year in the Bouches-du-Rhône, most often in the context of drug trafficking. On Tuesday, a 33-year-old man was killed in the early evening in a grocery store in Belle de Mai, a popular district in the center of Marseille, hit by a bullet fired from a vehicle which fled.