The periods of lull on the front of the “settling of accounts” last only a time. And that time is obviously up. After a series of shootings, often fatal, in the 3rd arrondissement, it was in the 14th that the shootings were concentrated this weekend, causing three injuries – including a young woman – and two deaths.
First act, Friday evening, when a car tumbled into the Mediterranean HLM city in the din of automatic weapons. The shots, very numerous and perhaps intended to intimidate, nevertheless caused a victim, undoubtedly collateral. Adel Santana Mendy, a young man of 22, was not known for drug trafficking but for his exploits on the football field. The prodigy striker from the Aubagne team (National 2), promised to Ligue 2, had come to see his friends in the neighborhood (our edition of yesterday).
The next day, last night, another shooting erupted just 200m from the first crime scene. First, a burst of Kalashnikovs at the foot of a building in the Campagne-Larousse city, where a Christmas tree had been erected. Then, a little further, automatic pistol fire.
A 23-year-old man, unknown to the police, received three impacts in the chest and back. Found in the hall and stabilized by the Smur, he was able to be operated on at the North Hospital. A second victim, a 21-year-old woman, had her elbow shattered by a bullet. Finally, an 18-year-old young man who lived in the neighborhood was slightly injured when he fell down the stairs. He alone was already known for modest narcotics cases. “But one can wonder if it was not him who was targeted…“, slips a close to the file.
While the criminal brigade and the scientific police were still raising the clues, in particular 17 cases of 7.62 mm as well as 9 mm, a new alert was given shortly following 2:30 a.m.
This time, it was at the Marine Bleue, 500 meters further south, but still in the 14th arrondissement, that shots were heard. In the parking lot of the city, a young man had just been shot twice in the head by two individuals on a scooter. Aged 20, he lived in the neighborhood and was already known for narcotics cases, “but there once more, small things, it was not a size of the traffic“, relativizes an investigator.
Two suspects arrested
A few moments later, two young men who were riding a scooter in the area were arrested by Bac Nord. Placed in police custody, the two suspects were entrusted to the PJ for verification purposes.
Moreover, these three cases, which no one ventures to link for the time being, are perplexing. If the Navy Blue was the scene of a double assassination in August 2021, within the framework of the dispute which still opposes the so-called “Blacks” clan and that of the Oliviers A (the city was deemed to be affiliated with the “Blacks”), no neighborhoods targeted this weekend is considered a “mecca” for drug trafficking in Marseille. And the profiles of the victims are no more enlightening.
“Something happened, thinks an investigator, but we still don’t understand what…“
