The Phoenician city was the scene of a new shooting on Saturday September 28: two people were killed and four others injured in the city of Iris, to the north of the city, without it being known whether this killing had a link with drug trafficking.
It’s a new Marseille drama. Two people were killed and four others injured late Saturday September 28 in a shooting in a city in the northern districts of Marseille, we learned this Sunday from a police source.
The shooting took place a little after 11 p.m. in the city of Iris, in the 14th arrondissement of France’s second city.
Victims aged 25 to 40
According to information from BFM Marseille Provence and the daily newspaper Provencethe victims, all men aged approximately 25 to 40, were in an association premises which was the target of shots with a Kalashnikov-type assault rifle. The two fatally injured victims were in cardio-respiratory arrest when emergency services arrived, and they were declared dead on the scene. The others were injured in the chest, legs and neck. A fourth injured person presented himself to the emergency room of the Lavernan military hospital. He was injured in the neck, arm and stomach. His days are not in danger.
A vehicle was found on fire a little later in the same district, without it being established whether it was the one used by the attackers.
Contacted, the Marseille prosecutor’s office had not yet responded on Sunday morning.
The motive for the shooting is not known but several cities in the northern districts of Marseille are plagued by poverty and drug trafficking. A young man was shot dead in the same city of Iris on July 10, in a probable “narchomicide”, these homicides against a backdrop of drug trafficking.
Violence linked to rivalries over drug trafficking caused a record number of 49 deaths in 2023. But they are significantly down in 2024. Before this shooting, there were 13 deaths in shootings of this type, including 9 in narchomicides officially confirmed by the prosecution.
