Marseille: a man in his thirties shot dead in the 13th arrondissement

A 31-year-old man was shot dead Wednesday, May 3, around 7:30 p.m. in the 13th arrondissement of Marseille, according to information from France Blue Provence and franceinfo. The man was hit in the head as he was returning to his vehicle, chemin de Château-Gombert. The perpetrator fired from a car which was later found burnt down. He is still wanted.

The victim had just been released from prison

Called on the spot, the sailors-firefighters of Marseilles could only note the death of the young man. The perpetrator(s) are on the run and the Marseille judicial police have been seized. According to information from France Bleu Provence, it would not be a case linked to drug trafficking, but to the past of the victim. The man had recently been released from prison, where he was serving a sentence for complicity in murder, committed in the 13th arrondissement in 2015.

Since the beginning of the year, 18 people have died by homicide in Marseille, in settling scores, mainly linked to drug trafficking, according to France Bleu Provence. This new gunshot death comes as a white march was organized on Wednesday afternoon in the La Joliette district, in tribute to the victims of the settling of accounts and shootings, and in particular a 16-year-old young man killed a month ago. .