Marseille: two dead in a shooting – archyde

A shooting left two dead and at least one injured overnight from Sunday to Monday in Marseille, in the 13th arrondissement, in the heart of the working-class neighborhoods in the north of the city, on a motorway ramp, we learned. police source. A chase would have started around 3:30 am between two cars, until one blocked the other at exit 2 of the A507 ramp, at the level of the Merlan district. The occupants of the first vehicle then came out onto the road and fired at the occupants of the blocked vehicle, which suffered multiple bullet impacts, according to the findings of the emergency services, we learned from a source close to the file. Two of the men in the car died on the spot: one of them, about 25 years old, was found on the ground, while the other, about 30 years old, was still in the car. Both were found in cardiorespiratory arrest. A fourth person sought in vain According to BFM Marseille, the third occupant of the vehicle, seriously injured, is 20 years old. He had multiple bullet holes on his limbs and on his back, added the same source familiar with the matter. Conscious at the time of his treatment, he was transported to hospital with a vital prognosis. The emergency services and the police searched in vain for a fourth person who would have been in the vehicle, according to the statements of the injured, without succeeding in locate it. The Marseille judicial police have been seized of the investigation. Since the beginning of the year, 22 people have been shot dead in the Bouches-du-Rhône, and mainly in Marseille, most often against a backdrop of drug trafficking, according to an AFP count. The police headquarters no longer gives an official count of “settlements of accounts” related to drug trafficking, as in 2021, when it had identified 15.