Barriol district, Arles, Saturday evening. A car arrives at a narcotics traffic point and its occupants open fire on a 16-year-old young man, fatally affecting him.
The victim had no criminal record, but the track of a settling of scores is favored by the investigators. The Bouches-du-Rhône and Marseille in particular have been experiencing an outbreak of violence since the beginning of the summer and this homicide brings to seven the number of people killed since June 25, most of them visibly linked to drug trafficking.