An 18-year-old man was shot in the head on Sunday evening in a city in the impoverished northern districts of Marseille against a backdrop of drug trafficking, we learned on Monday from police sources.
The homicide occurred shortly before 10 p.m. in the Cité du Mail, in the 14th arrondissement of Marseille, said a spokeswoman for the Marseille police headquarters, confirming initial information from the regional daily. Provence. The judicial police have been seized of the investigation.
Sixteen victims since the beginning of the year
This death brings to 16 the number of victims killed since the beginning of the year in the second city of France in violence generally linked to drug trafficking.
The victim was sitting on a sofa at the foot of a building plagued by drug trafficking. Gunmen got out of a car and shot him before fleeing, police said. Their vehicle was later found, charred.
Marseille has experienced several bloody episodes since the beginning of the year, against a backdrop of turf wars and the dynamics of a “vendetta” between drug traffickers. The year 2022 had already been particularly deadly in the Bouches-du-Rhône, with 32 victims of organized gang homicides, including 28 in Marseille, according to figures from the prosecution.