A 20-year-old man was killed Tuesday evening around 11:30 p.m. in Aix-en-Provence, apparently as part of a drug transaction, we learned on Wednesday from police and judicial sources.
The events took place at the end of the evening, in the Montée Bellevue district, during a meeting between two groups of people, in two vehicles, with “the apparent motive of a drug transaction”, told AFP the public prosecutor of Aix-en-Provence Jean-Luc Blachon.
At least one man allegedly got out of a vehicle, his face masked, with a handgun, and shot twice, fatally hitting one of the passengers in the other vehicle, a young man born in 2004, in the neck. A total of three people, aged 20 to 22, were in the targeted vehicle. All three, including the victim, were known for drug trafficking, but as small hands, underlined the magistrate.
The number of passengers in the shooter’s vehicle is, however, not known and no arrests had yet been made as of late Wednesday morning, as part of this investigation entrusted to the judicial police.
It was not yet possible to determine on Wednesday whether this homicide was premeditated, as part of an organized ambush, or only the consequence of a transaction that went wrong, insisted Mr. Blachon to AFP , specifying in passing that the neighborhood where this tragedy took place is not particularly known to be difficult.
© Agence France-Presse
