A 22-year-old man was shot dead and another 63-year-old seriously injured on Friday evening in a northern district of Marseille. “The facts occurred at 7:45 p.m. in the northern districts of Marseille,” said a police source.
When the firefighters arrived on boulevard Simon Bolivar, in the 15th arrondissement, a 22-year-old man presented “several bullet holes”, according to the same source.
second victim
“The caliber may suggest a Kalashnikov type weapon,” she added, adding that the identity of the victim was still “undetermined”. In cardiorespiratory arrest, the man “was declared deceased by the emergency doctor”, specified the marine-firefighters. A second 63-year-old man, “a priori a collateral victim”, notably had wounds in the abdomen and was taken to hospital with a vital prognosis, they added.
The judicial police have been seized of the investigation. It would be the 7th homicide under the background of rivalry between drug trafficking gangs since the beginning of the year.