It’s about drugs, billing and territorial claims: In the southern French port city of Marseille, the gang war is bloody.
Marseille – Bloody summer in Marseille: The war between drug gangs in the French port city claimed its tenth victim within two months on Thursday night.
A man was struck down in the street with targeted shots, a companion was critically injured, reported the local newspaper “La Provence”.
There is still no trace of the perpetrators. The judicial police attribute the act to a series of settlements that have accumulated since July. As recently as Monday, 51 new police officers were ordered to the second largest French city, as the prefecture announced.
The gang war is about territorial claims by drug gangs and mutual settlements, reported the newspaper “Le Monde” on Thursday. The victims are mostly young men, but stray shots also hit bystanders on a regular basis. At the beginning of July, a 17-year-old died in the back seat of a car after being shot three times in the head, but the hail of bullets was probably aimed at the passenger, who was injured in the shoulder.
In the city, which has been burdened by bloody drug conflicts for many years, the police have now permanently stationed two units of the riot police CRS in order to destabilize the gangs, wrote “Le Monde”. dpa
