The 24-year-old young woman who was brain dead after being hit at her home on Sunday in Marseille by a burst of Kalashnikovs fired blindly, died this Tuesday, said the public prosecutor of Marseille.
This young woman was hit in the head on Sunday around 11 p.m. by Kalashnikov shots while she was at home with her mother, in her bedroom, on the 3rd floor of a building located in a housing estate in the 10th arrondissement, in the southeast of the city. “It’s an absolute tragedy,” lamented Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin on France Bleu, traveling to Marseille this Tuesday.
The bullet went through the plywood of the window
“The bullet that struck her passed through a wooden plywood located at the bottom of the bay window,” said public prosecutor Dominique Laurens in a press release.
“Transferred to hospital, seriously injured in the head with a life-threatening prognosis, she died in the early morning (Tuesday) in the hospital,” added the magistrate.
Three other apartments were hit by these shots which occurred at the foot of a group of buildings in Saint-Thys, a priority district, where there is a drug trafficking point “which was clearly targeted”, the prefect of the district explained on Monday. Bouches-du-Rhône police Frédérique Camilleri.
The apartment of “a lady living on the 4th floor aged 79, that of a man living on the 5th floor aged 71 and that of a lady living in another building, above the pharmacy, aged 86 years old” were hit by bullets, without their inhabitants being physically injured.
” Bloodbath “
Twenty-three Kalashnikov shell casings were found on site. Also, even if, according to the magistrate, “the young woman appears to be a “collateral” victim”, the third since the start of the year in Marseille, “the intention of premeditated homicide is characterized by the transition to act “.
Since January, around forty people have been killed in violence linked to drug banditry in Marseille, a situation described as a “bloodbath” by the authorities. Monday evening, a 55-year-old man was shot and killed in a district in the north of Marseille, we learned from police sources.
In 2023, this violence has already caused two collateral victims, a 43-year-old woman and a 63-year-old man. With this new 24-year-old victim, “we have reached the ultimate level” of this violence, denounced Dominique Laurens.