Two Egyptians, Mahmoud Kadri and Karim Ibrahim, were convicted of the murder of the transgender sex worker, on the night of August 16th to 17, 2018 in the Bois de Boulogne.
Le Monde with AFP
The Assize Court of Paris sentenced Saturday, January 29 two Egyptians, Mahmoud Kadri and Karim Ibrahim, twenty-two years of criminal imprisonment for the murder in 2018 at the Bois de Boulogne de Vanesa Campos, worker of sex transgender.
The sentences pronounced after more than nine hours of deliberate go beyond the requisitions of the Prosecution, which had requested Thursday twenty years of criminal imprisonment against Mahmoud Kadri, 24 years, designated by his co-accused like the one. who had shot on Vanesa Campos on the night of August 16th to 17th, 2018, what he disputes.
Fitted by Karim Ibrahim, 29, also returned for “organized band murder”, Counsel General Olivier Aferil had asked for a “complicity of murder” requalification and a fifteen years of imprisonment. The two main accused have always returned the responsibility of the crime.
On the last day of the trial of the murder of Vanesa Campos, the accused had expressed his “apologies”, before the Assize Court withdraws to deliberate. “I apologize for everything that happened, I’m sorry,” said Mahmoud Kadri via an Arabic speaker, before collapsing into tears to the evocation of his mother. “I’m sorry for all that, I’m sorry,” said in French, Karim Ibrahim, in his last words to the court, before it goes to deliberate.
” Feeling of all-power “
Vanessa Campos, Peruvian of 36, had been killed by bullet during a punitive expedition, in a remote location and immersed in the darkness of the Bois de Boulogne where it had been for two years. On the evening of the facts, she had found himself “naked, helpless, facing the arrival (one) pack”, a group of at least a dozen young men, armed and “galvanized by a feeling of all -Power, “said the general lawyer.
This expedition was intended to “regain control of the territory by ceasing the resistance” of South American trans prostitutes, who had hired “protectors” against the actions of a band of thieves who coort their customers for several years. .
The Prosecution representative required five-year imprisonment sentences, including a couple of stay, against five other accused judged to participate in the punitive expedition.
The same five-year prison sentence was requested against an eighth man, judged for the flight of the crime weapon, a pistol stolen a week earlier to a police officer while he was with a prostitute. For the eight accused of Egyptian origin, the Advocate General also required a ban on weapons and a prohibition, for a period of ten years or final, the French territory.