The two people who were shot at tonight, around 9:15 p.m., on the public road, boulevard Bouès, in the Belle-de-Mai district (3rd), finally succumbed to their injuries shortly after their arrival at the hospital, we have just learned from source close to the investigation. They were aged, according to our information, in their thirties. One of them, who was in cardiorespiratory arrest, had nevertheless been resuscitated in extremis by the marine firefighters urgently dispatched to the scene.
Several individuals traveling by car had fired on two people on foot, according to initial investigations. The vital prognosis had remained engaged for the two victims who were medicalized and transported to the hospital.
Once again, the caliber used would be 7.62, that of the Kalashnikov type assault rifle. About thirty firefighters were mobilized on the intervention. The judicial police were charged with the investigation in the evening by the Marseille prosecutor’s office. The shooters’ car was found burned not far from the scene of the shots.
This shooting follows that of Saturday evening in the same borough which cost the life of a young 21-year-old boy and caused two minor injuries aged 23 and 36, boulevard Camille-Pelletan (3rd) – was this an immediate response? -, but also to successive events all as recent as those that occurred in the neighboring and equally explosive sector of the Moulin de Mai (3rd).