Two people were killed and four others injured on Saturday night during a shooting in a city north of Marseille, a police source learned on Sunday, September 29.
The shooting took place shortly after 11 p.m. in the city of Iris, at 2 p.m.my city district.
According to information from the BFM Marseille and the newspaper ProvenceThe victims, all men between 25 and 35 years old, were at the premises of an association where they were attacked with a Kalashnikov-type assault rifle. Two of the people attacked died instantly.
The motive for the shooting is unknown, but several towns in Marseille’s northern districts are plagued by poverty and drug trafficking. A young man was shot to death in this same city on July 10, in a probable narco-micide, these homicides in a context of drug trafficking.
Violence linked to drug trafficking rivalries caused a record forty-nine deaths in 2023. But they have decreased significantly in 2024. Before this shooting, there were thirteen deaths in such shootings, nine of them in confirmed narcomicides officially by the prosecutor’s office.
Contacted, the Marseille prosecutor’s office had not yet responded on Sunday morning.
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