One person was killed and two others were injured early Tuesday evening, targets of a shooting in the Arnavaux district, in the north of Marseille, we learned from a police source and from the prosecution.
The facts took place shortly before 8:00 p.m., Marseille prosecutor Dominique Laurens told AFP, confirming the initial information. from the regional daily Provence.
The three victims are men. Only one of them was already identified on Tuesday evening, the deceased, a 24-year-old man known to the justice services, said Dominique Laurens, without being able to give additional details on the unfolding of the facts and the type of firearms used by the shooter (s).
16 dead since the start of the year
The other two victims are in serious condition and their vital prognosis is engaged, said the prosecution. According to Provence, these two men would also be in their twenties.
If the Arnavaux district, near the flea market, in the 14th arrondissement, is one of the poorest in Marseille, nothing yet makes it possible to concretely link this new tragedy to the drug trafficking which plagues most of the cities of the working-class districts. from the north of the Phocaean city.
Since the start of the year, 16 people have been killed in settling of scores against a background of drug trafficking in the department, according to the latest figures communicated to AFP on Tuesday by the Bouches-du-Rhône police headquarters .