Another Fatal Shooting in Marseille’s Castellas District on June 5, 2023

Marseille fell asleep bruised again on June 5, 2023, with the violent assassination of a man from Castellas.

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June 6, 2023

Another gunshot death in Marseille, June 5, 2023

A young man was shot dead according to information from BFMTV., during a bloody shooting, on the evening of Monday, June 5 in the evening around 9:30 p.m., in Marseille. A new crime in Marseille, committed this time in the Castellas district.

The victim is a man, who would be 18 or 20 years old according to the sources. He was riddled with bullets in the chest, and if he was taken care of by the emergency services, who unsuccessfully tried to resuscitate him, he died a few minutes later, with a confirmed death around 10:30 p.m. We know that the victim tried to flee his assailant(s), and to take refuge in a nearby mosque, without succeeding.

A new victim in the city of Castellas, already the 23rd of the year

It is in the city of Castellas, a well-known city, located in the 15th arrondissement, that the 23rd shot to death of the year 2023 in Marseille died.

Already on April 2, just over two months ago, two men aged 21 and 23 were also killed in a shooting in the same city. A night of horror, since only a few hours after these two deaths, two young teenagers aged 15 and 16 had also been shot dead in the Joliette district.

A double homicide which responded directly to the first two deaths of this disastrous night, and two attacks sponsored directly by the leaders of the gangs which clash in the city and its outskirts. Above all, the two teenagers killed would have been the last victims of Matteo (see), this pimply hitman to whom nearly a dozen settling of accounts could be attributed.

More broadly, the city of Castellas is known to be the target of violent gangs who control part of the drug trafficking in the Marseille basin, who clash with a lot of contracts, weapons of war and settling of scores to appropriate it.

In 2022, 32 people lost their lives in the Bouches-du-Rhône department, against the background of drug trafficking. With a count that rises to 23 while the first half of 2023 is not over, the final number is likely to exceed the previous one.

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