PublishedOctober 2, 2022, 2:00 pm
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Marseille (D)Young man shot dead in the middle of the road by strangers on scooters
The 21-year-old victim was shot dead with a Kalashnikov on Saturday night while walking down the street. The attack also left two injured.
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No details have been given as to the reasons for this case, but Bouches-du-Rhône and Marseille, in particular, regularly experience the settling of scores related to drug trafficking.
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A 21-year-old man was shot dead late Saturday evening in a neighborhood near central Marseille, we learned from various sources close to the investigation. “Shortly before midnight, two people on a scooter shot an individual on foot,” said a source, a 21-year-old man, avenue Camille-Pelletan, in the 3rd arrondissement, one of the poorest in the city. confirming the information from the newspaper “La Provence”. The young man killed “died a few moments later”, says the same source according to which two other “slightly injured” are also to be deplored.
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Customers of a cafe collateral victims
Around 11:20 pm, the two people on a scooter fired 17 times with a Kalashnikov in the direction of the victim known to the police “for minor crimes that have nothing to do” with facts of this magnitude, adds a source close to the investigation. The man killed was hit by two bullets, in the chest and flanks.
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According to this same source, he took refuge in a nearby bar, where two men between twenty and thirty, sitting on the terrace, one of them received a bullet, the other a lightning strike. “They showed up at the hospital where they were treated before leaving” in the night, explained the source.
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The investigation was handed over to the federal police. No details have been given as to the reasons for this case, but Bouches-du-Rhône and Marseille, in particular, regularly experience the settling of scores related to drug trafficking.
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(AFP)
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