the persons targeted were known to the police, in particular for “great crime” and “drug trafficking”

Three men were shot dead on Sunday, May 21 around 5:10 a.m., in the 11th arrondissement of Marseille, confirms the public prosecutor of Marseille to France Inter. The facts took place on Boulevard de la Pomme, according to the police headquarters.

The three victims, aged in their twenties, were in a car with two other men who had gotten out at the time of the shooting. According to the first elements of the investigation, several individuals in the car opened fire in the direction of a vehicle, before fleeing. Five bullet holes “Kalashnikov type” were noted on the vehicle, specifies the parquet floor.

“Among the occupants of the car (targeted) three were known to the police for drug trafficking and are from a city which is known for drug trafficking, the Félix-Pyat city, which is currently the subject of ‘a number of coveted by competing networks’explained the police chief of Bouches-du-Rhône, Frédérique Camilleri, who went to the scene.

21 people died in shootings in Marseille in 2023

One of the men who accompanied them tried to take them to the hospital before realizing that they were dead. The other fled. This is a man well known to the police, already convicted of criminal association in a case of organized crime, says the prosecutor. The shooter or shooters are still on the run as of 5 p.m. this Sunday. Their car was found burned in Aubagne, near Marseille, indicates the prosecution.

The judicial police of Marseille is seized. Since the beginning of the year, 21 people have died in shootings in this city, “an apocalyptic number” for Rudy Manna, interviewed on franceinfo. According to him, “we are off to a record year, unfortunately”.