Marseille: Fear and Tragedy Grips the City Amidst Turf War Over Drug Trafficking

After the death of three young people on the background, no doubt, of drug trafficking in the night from Sunday to Monday, people from Marseilles gathered the next day say that they are afraid “every day”.

It happened in less than an hour, in the night from Sunday to Monday, in Marseille. A 16-year-old boy was killed, shot by several bullets around midnight in front of a snack bar in the Joliette district, in the city center. Two other young people who were with him, also affected, were hospitalized. One of them is 14, the other 15 and on Monday evening his vital prognosis was still “very committed”, according to the floor.

That same evening, around 11:30 p.m. north of town, another two-shot shooting targeted a group just a little older. The first bursts of Kalashnikovs, fired from a car in the city of Castellas (15th), killed two people, aged 21 and 23. A handful of minutes later, the shooting resumed a few hundred meters away, on the other side of the A7, hitting six other people, wounded in the feet and legs.

Result of a single night: three dead and eight injured, some of whom are known to the police. All probable victims of the turf war between the narcotics networks. A bloody concentrate of a tragically ordinary reality: in Marseilles since the beginning of January, traffic has killed 14 people and injured 43 others.

As of Monday morning, a collective of families of victims launched a call to gather in the afternoon near the city of Castellas. In the parking lot next to the Casino, there are only about thirty of them. Mostly women, mostly activists a