Two individuals mounted on a scooter opened fire on the victim, a small hand of a network of drugs from the city being the subject of an OQTF. An investigation into attempted assassination in an organized gang was opened.
The beginnings of a new armed conflict for the takeover of the Castellane? At the end of the afternoon late Monday, a young man officiating as a lookout, in a network of drugs in the city was shot in two armed criminals, learned Le Figaro concordant sources, confirming information from Provence .
According to a police source, the police patrolled in the 15the Arrondissement in search of a dealer of the Cité de la Bricarde who tried to take refuge in the Castellane when they came across the victim, injured by bullets at the arms as well as in the lower abdomen. According to witnesses to the scene, two individuals dressed in black and mounted on a scooter burst into the city before opening fire and fleeing.
A version corroborated by the victim, a 26 -year -old young man born in Algeria, being the subject of an obligation to leave French (OQTF) and already known to the authorities for acts of drug trafficking from a police source. Presenting himself as a “Watch out” From the Castellane working for the Bricarde network, he was transported to the hospital by the emergency services with a committed vital prognosis.
War of territory
His vital prognosis was no longer initiated this Tuesday morning, as confirmed in Figaro by the Marseille prosecutor’s office, which specifies that an investigation was opened from the leaders of “Attempted assassination in an organized gang” and “Participation in an association of criminals for an organized gang crime”. The investigations were entrusted to the organized and specialized crime division (DCOS, ex-PJ). According to one of our sources, the suspects were still on the run this Tuesday morning.
This shooting, although for the moment an isolated fact, reveals the return of a confrontation between gangs for the takeover of the Castellane, an emblematic city of the northern districts of Marseille and the operation «place nette XXL » Launched in March 2024 by Emmanuel Macron. On April 24, several major traffickers suspected of being at the head of “Castellane network” had been arrested and indicted for their presumed participation in a “Hierarchical and structured mafia business” which still generated 15 million euros annually despite police operations, according to the public prosecutor of Marseille, Nicolas Bessone.
