Arab Thugs Shoot Up A Store Before Setting It On Fire In Marseille

During the night of Wednesday 6 to Thursday 7 November, armed Arab men targeted a supermarket in the northern districts of Marseille (15th arrondissement) before setting it on fire.

The fire then caused the evacuation of several residents of the building. On the internet, a video testifies to the violence of these acts, before the fire was started.

It was in fact 2 a.m. when armed and hooded individuals fired several shots.

Alerted by the sound of the detonations and seeing the first flames, a neighbor immediately alerted the police. The business had been completely destroyed.

Last week, a 14-year-old murdered a taxi driver during a botched revenge mission for the brutal killing of a 15-year-old.

Marseille prosecutor Nicolas Bessone has warned that the city's drug lords were recruiting young boys to kill "without any remorse or reflection".

During a press conference on Sunday, Mr Bessone described the "unprecedented savagery" of the 15-year-old's murder linked to a feud between two gangs known as the "DZ Mafia" and the "Blacks".

According to prosecutors, a member of the DZ Mafia, who is currently in prison, hired the boy for €2,000 ($2,192; £1,676) to "intimidate" a competitor by setting fire to his door.

The teenager was spotted and searched by rivals from the Blacks gang, who then stabbed him and set him on fire after finding a gun.

"He was stabbed 50 times and taken to the Fonscolombes housing estate, where he was burned alive," said Mr Bessone. A friend, also aged 15, managed to escape.