A castellane lookout seriously injured by bullets around a college

A shooting broke out late Monday afternoon, seriously injuring a man in his twenties near the city of Castellane, in the northern districts of Marseille. The victim is known for drug trafficking.

It was a little more than 5 p.m. on Monday, when shots broke out, in front of the Henri-Barnier college, on the boulevard of the same name, near the city La Castellane, in the 15th^e Marseille district. A 26-year-old man was targeted by two individuals on the scooter who fled, a police source on Monday, May 5, a police source.

The man has been reached by several 9 mm balls with the abdomen and arms. Savers were found on the spot.

A police crew in intervention in the neighboring city alerted the emergency services. Quickly on site, the firefighters evacuated the victim with a vital prognosis hired to a hospital. The victim was operated on and his days are no longer in danger, according to the site News17.

The first on -site observations favor the track of an attempted settling of account linked to drug trafficking. The victim of Algerian origin is known to the police for drug trafficking and is the subject of an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF), according to the same police source. The man explained to the investigators on site to be a watchman of the Castellane. An investigation was opened. The Marseille judicial police were seized, under the authority of the prosecution.

This homicide attempt comes after a large police net, April 25, which led to the arrest of 22 people, presented as lieutenants of Mohamed Djeha dit “Mimo”, one of the biggest barons of French drugs, at the head of the Castellane network.

In June 2023, the 41-year-old Marseille trafficker, sentenced a month earlier to 30 years’ imprisonment by the Aix-en-Provence Assize Court for ordering a settling of accounts, had been arrested during his run in Algeria.