Marseille: a 14-year-old teenager shot dead – Franceinfo

It is a whole city which wakes up, Thursday, August 19, in the violence of drug trafficking. On the evening of Wednesday, August 18, two people on motorcycles armed with a Kalashnikov-type assault rifle fire at the entrance to a residence in the Cité des Marronniers in Marseille. (Bouches-du-Rhône). A young man aged 14 was shot dead, and two others were wounded, one of whom was just 8 years old.

The shooting took place in the city of Marronniers, a popular district of Marseille. The witnesses are stunned. The teenager killed and one of the injured were known to the police for cases related to drug trafficking. For investigators, it looks like a turf war. According to the prefecture, this is the 11th murder linked to settling of scores this year. Traveling in the department, Gérald Darmanin, the minister of the Interior, To again promised 300 additional police officers deployed in Marseille, including a hundred by the end of the year.