A shooting broke out on Sunday September 10, 2023 around 11 p.m. in the Saint-Thys city in the 10th arrondissement of Marseille, in Bouches-du-Rhône. Two people on scooters entered the city then fired in bursts at a deal point before fleeing, reports BFM TV Monday September 11, 2023. Dominique Laurens, the Marseille prosecutor, announced that a 24-year-old woman had been hit in the head by a Kalashnikov bullet and is now brain dead. At the time of the shooting, a Kalashnikov bullet passed through a wall while the victim was at home with his mother, in his bedroom, on the third floor of a building. “Several apartments were impacted by the shooting, two other apartments in addition to that of this young woman and her mother. That of a lady who lives on the 4th floor, aged 79, […] also an 86-year-old lady whose apartment was impacted by these shots. However, these two ladies were not physically injured.indicated the magistrate.
Marseille on the verge of a nervous breakdown
A blatant investigation has been opened into the charges of assassination attempts by an organized gang and criminal association, with a view to the commission of a crime. The case was handed over to the judicial police. The toll of assassinations against a backdrop of drug trafficking in Marseille reached nearly 40 deaths in less than eight months, noted France Blue Provence Wednesday August 16, 2023. This is a figure already higher than that of the entire year 2022, which recorded 31 deaths. “Unfortunately, we expected the record to be broken this summer and it happened”, explained Karima Meziene, spokesperson for the collective of victims’ families to our colleagues. She lost her brother during a settling of scores, he was shot six years ago. “We hope it will calm down […], what level of violence will we reach? Knowing that almost every evening there is a shooting now”, she regretted. The people of Marseillais are counting on the efforts made in the school and the city’s neighborhoods. They also expect changes thanks to the new Secretary of State for the city, Sabrina Agresti-Roubache.