2015 Marseille shooting

On 9 February 2015, hooded gunmen in the French city of Marseille sparked a lockdown after they fired Kalashnikov rifles at police officers while Manuel Valls, the French Prime Minister, was visiting the city. It is thought that the shooting was drug-gang related, but due to the recent Charlie Hebdo shooting and the Porte de Vincennes hostage crisis during the 2015 Île-de-France attacks, the entire troubled Marseille suburb of La Castellane was on lockdown for hours. No one was injured.

2015 Marseille shooting
La Castellane
LocationLa Castellane, Marseille
Date9 February 2015
TargetDrug gang, police
Attack type
Shooting
WeaponsKalashnikov rifles
Deaths0
Injured1
PerpetratorsDrug gang

Incident

Shortly after gunfire occurred near a police car,[1] the National Gendarmerie Intervention Group locked down the area. A number of arrests were made, resulting in the seizure of seven Kalashnikovs, two .357 Magnum revolvers and around 20 kilograms of drugs.[2] However, it soon became clear that the gunmen were not aiming at the police; instead, the gunfire was the result of a turf war between two gangs,[3] selling primarily cannabis and cocaine. Drug-traffickers as a whole in La Castellane are reported to make between 50,000 and 60,000 euros a day as of 2015.

Aftermath

Shortly after the shooting, Manuel Valls called it an example of "apartheid", whereby some French citizens who live in such neighbourhoods feel excluded from society.

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References
  1. Marc Leras, Marseille police shot at by hooded gunmen, prior to French PM visit, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 February 2015
  2. marseille : pourquoi le trafic garde la main à la castellane, La Provence, 11 February 2015
  3. Maia de la Baume, Shots Fired Near Marseille on Day of French Prime Minister’s Visit, The New York Times, February 09, 2015
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