Gangster murdered in Marseille's 19th fatal shooting this year

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A well-known Marseille gangster was murdered in a deserted street on Monday night, the latest in a series of gangland slayings in a city sometimes labelled France's "capital of crime".
Alain Armato, 56, was shot dead in a street on a crime-ridden housing estate at about 11.30 on Monday night - the 19th fatal shooting in the Marseille region this year.
There were no witnesses to the killing and an ambulance did not arrive until several minutes after the shots were fired.


Police say that "perhaps two men on a moped" carried it out, "very precisely", hitting the victim several times and leaving 11 9mm cartridges behind.

Jailbreak by helicopter

Armato, who was born in Algeria, was an "old-time hoodlum" well-known to police, first coming to their attention at the age of 21 for pimping.
He was active in Marseille's notorious criminal "milieu", which "is likely to have made him a number of enemies", according to police sources, but was apparently not involved in the city's flourishing drugs trade.
In 2011 he was jailed for nine years for organising a jail break by his friend Pascal Payet, a robber accused of murder who was known as the "king of escapes", by helicopter, the pilot having been taken hostage by four accomplices.

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