Three shootings broke out in the northern districts of Marseille, leaving three dead and several injured, three of whom are life-threatening.
By IM with AFP
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Lhe police announced the death of three people in three shootings in Marseille, on the night of Sunday April 2 to Monday April 3. Three other people are between life and death. These shootings broke out in the working-class neighborhoods in the north of Marseille. They also left five injured whose vital prognosis is not engaged, AFP learned from the Bouches-du-Rhône police headquarters and marine firefighters, confirming initial information from BFM Marseille Provence. The investigations were entrusted to the judicial police.
With the three dead this night, 13 people have been shot dead since the beginning of the year in the Marseille city, according to an AFP count, most of the time against a backdrop of drug trafficking in these estates in working-class neighborhoods of France’s second city plagued by poverty, unemployment and drugs.
The victims of these three shootings, all men, are in their twenties.
Territorial struggles
A first shooting broke out around midnight near the city of Castellas, in the 15e arrondissement. Then a second not far away, on the other side of the A7 motorway, near the city of Aygalades, also one of those high places of drug trafficking which has led to several settling of scores this year, against a backdrop of struggles between territories.
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It was in this first shooting, at Castellas, that the police recorded the first two deaths of that night. These two shootings also left six injured, including one between life and death.
Shortly before 1 a.m., a third shooting broke out in the 2e district of Marseille, towards rue Vincent-Leblanc, near the port district of La Joliette. A victim hit by a bullet has been declared dead and two other people are in absolute emergency.
