Two shootings injured four people, including one very seriously, on the night of April 12 to 13 in two working-class neighborhoods in Marseille, Agence France-Presse (AFP) learned from a police source. A first shooting took place shortly before midnight, quoted Félix-Pyat (3rd arrondissement), near the Saint-Charles station, injuring one person, said the Prefecture of police, confirming initial information from the regional daily La Provence. From a source close to the investigation contacted by AFP, the victim, a teenager, was injured in the legs.
A second shooting then took place after midnight, towards the Belle-de-Mai district, in the same arrondissement, leaving three injured. The vital prognosis of one of them was still engaged Thursday morning. The judicial police were only seized for the exchange of fire at Belle-de-Mai, said the police headquarters of Bouches-du-Rhône, without giving at this stage any indications on the reasons for these shots and without have a direct link with drug trafficking.
Still according to La Provence, shootings would also have taken place in other places in Marseille, in particular Banon Boulevard, where men hooded in a car would have targeted a second vehicle, then in the Consolat and Busserine cities, in the north of Marseille. These exchanges of fire did not cause any injuries.
The shootings come less than two weeks after three other shootings that left three people dead in Marseille, two young men aged 21 and 23, and a 16-year-old teenager. Eight people were also injured in the shooting. Since the beginning of the year, fourteen people have lost their lives in Marseille, against a backdrop of drug trafficking.
