French TV reported on Friday morning that score settling may be behind the third murder in five days in the southern city of Marseille.

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Marseille: third fatal shooting in one week

French TV reported on Friday morning that score settling may be behind the third murder in five days in the southern city of Marseille.

Published: 2 December 2011 08:25 CET

A man was shot dead and another was injured in a snack bar in the city late on Thursday night.

BFM TV reported that the attack was carried out with a Kalashnikov weapon.

The two victims were aged 41 and 32 reported newspaper 20 Minutes.

“This involved one shooter, perhaps with a second individual,” said the public prosecutor, Jacques Dallest.

“He started shooting inside the bar, killing one man and seriously injuring one other who was seemingly an employee.”

A total of 30 gun cartridges and bullet marks were found in the bar.

“We don’t know if the dead man was a client or worked in the bar,” he said. 

The shooting rounds off a week of violence in the city which is known for its problems with crime. 

On Sunday night a man was shot dead by police after a car chase in the town of Vitrolles, north of Marseille. 

The next day a Romanian man was also shot dead by police after a burglary in the northern part of the city. 

Interior minister Claude Guéant installed a new senior official, Alain Gardère, to combat crime in the city in August. 

He also pledged a reinforcement of 360 additional police officers for the city, including 200 from the anti-riot CRS squad.

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Two girls wounded in knife attack outside French school

An assailant on Thursday wounded two girls aged 6 and 11 in a knife attack close to their school in the east of France and was later arrested, officials said.

Published: 18 April 2024 16:33 CEST
Two girls wounded in knife attack outside French school

The 11-year-old was stabbed outside the school in the town of Souffelweyersheim, on the outskirts of Strasbourg, while the six-year-old was attacked by the same man nearby.

Both received superficial wounds, police said, adding the attacker did not appear to have any known links to radicals and was not previously known to the security services.

Both received superficial wounds, police said, adding the attacker did not appear to have any known links to radicals and was not previously known to the security services.

Both girls are being treated in a paediatric hospital. Parents were later in the afternoon allowed to pick up their children, who had been confined to the school in the immediate aftermath of the attack.

The attacker, born in 1995, was arrested in the area where he attacked the second girl, the police said. He no longer had the knife in his hand and did not resist arrest, it added.

The attack came as Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced a series of measures aimed at cracking down on violence committed by schoolchildren against their peers. There was no indication so far that the attacker had a link with the school.

“I’m really scared. We’ve been reassured that the children are safe inside, but we don’t know when we’ll be able to get them back,” Sarah, a mother of an eight-year-old pupil, told AFP before the green light was given to collect the children.

“A friend called me. She saw the commotion in front of the school as she passed by. Her reflex was to call me so that I could pick up my son.”

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