three people shot dead in the 11th arrondissement

Three people were shot dead on the morning of Sunday May 21 around 5:10 a.m., in the 11th arrondissement of Marseille, franceinfo learned from the police, confirming information from BFMTV. It is “three young men of 20 years” who were going out “of a disco”according to Rudy Manna, departmental secretary of the Alliance Police union in the Bouches-du-Rhône, guest of franceinfo.

According to the first elements, several individuals approached a vehicle and fired at the occupants before fleeing. The passengers “were killed with weapons of war, Kalashnikov”, according to Rudy Manna. The Bouches-du-Rhône prefecture specifies that five people were on board. The prefect of the department went on the spot.

21 dead in shootings in Marseille

The Bouches-du-Rhône prefecture adds that the facts occurred on Boulevard de la Pomme and that the Marseille judicial police are seized. Since the beginning of the year, 21 people have died in shootings in this city, “an apocalyptic number” for Rudy Manna. According to him, “we are off to a record year, unfortunately”.

“If we don’t unite the forces of the Republic to fight against this, frankly, we won’t succeed, and we will count more and more deaths in the streets of Marseille, but also in the streets of the Island. -of France”he warns.