Eleven people are judged before the Criminal Court for Trafficking in Human Beings and Proxengism. The parquet floor required up to nine years in prison against the defendants.
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His name Nigerian, it’s Odion. The one she wore when she prostituted around the station Saint-Charles, it was “Tassy”. Called to testify, Thursday, October 7, before the Marseille Criminal Court, the 34-year-old woman is no longer afraid. Neither the Juju “, this voodoo ceremony practiced in Nigeria before leaving for Europe, during which she had sworn in the shaman never to reveal the name of her podium, at the risk of immediate death. Neither eleven men and women sitting behind her, judged for human beings and procuring, in 2017 she had denounced. She even dares to turn and point two defendants who, on the first day of the trial, followed her and threatened her in Edo, the language of their southern Nigeria state. “You brought me to court, I’ll find you here in Europe or Nigeria and I will kill you,” they told him, according to her.
These intimidations at the courtroom’s door illustrate the violence of Nigerian crime at the heart of the provider of the Prosecutor of the Sophie Couillaud Republic. “This file plunges us into merchandising at the highest level of the human being. It is a less noisy crime than the one we usually believed here, that of drug trafficking and account regulation cases, but it is is a crime we do not need, which should not be established in Marseille. “So, to try to stem” the import of these abominable offenses committed by extremely violent criminal networks “, M ME COUILLAUD calls for heavy condemnations from three to nine years in prison, a final prohibition of French territory, including against one of the defendants who have obtained refugee status, and a deposit warrant for eight of the ten defendants who are deemed free.
Nine years in prison were required against Tony Osemiwigie, 27, “Mister Tony”, and his companion, Vera Okoro, both still detained. It was him that “Tassy” had designated as his pimetic and executive, the one who had brought him into Europe and asked him to pay 50,000 euros, his “passage debt”. “Yes, he raped me,” she confirms President Johan Denis, to whom she explains to have been attached and scalded by the couple because she refused to prostitute himself. On the Canebière, they had also struck her so that she regulates a relic of 20,000 euros and, according to a custom, frees himself from his pumping by buying from “gold and traditional clothes”.
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