A new shooting broke out in a city known for drug trafficking, causing the death of a man in his thirties.
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UA man in his thirties was shot dead overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday in a city of Marseille plagued by drug trafficking, we learned from police sources. “There were gunshots in the city of La Paternelle, a man in his thirties died,” a police source told AFP, confirming information from RMC.
The victim was at a point of sale of drugs, said another police source. The city La Paternelle, located in the north of the second largest city in France, is at the heart of a struggle between rival groups to take control of its juicy deal points. The man was known for facts related to narcotics, according to the same source. The judicial police are seized of the investigation.
22 dead since the beginning of 2023
This new homicide brings the toll of violence against a backdrop of drug trafficking to 22 dead since the beginning of the year, with 20 people shot dead, one lynched to death and one found in the trunk of a burnt-out car, presumably killed Gunshot. The victims are generally young men, sometimes teenagers, located at the bottom of the trafficking ladder, lookouts or sellers at deal points, targeted by killers from rival gangs. But some, like a 43-year-old mother who was shot downstairs on May 10, could be collateral victims.
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Territorial disputes between traffickers for control of lucrative deal points set up in city estates are turning into a “vendetta”, estimated in early April the prefect Frédérique Camilleri and the prosecutor of Marseille, Dominique Laurens.
2023-05-31 09:40:37
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