The Advocate General also claimed, Thursday, five-year imprisonment sentences, including one susorted, against six other accused.
Le Monde with AFP
The victim was alone in front of a “pack”: the Prosecution required, Thursday, January 27, in Paris of the penalties of fifteen and twenty years in prison against two men accused of murder in the Bois de Boulogne, In August 2018, from Vanesa Campos, 36, a worker of undocumented transgender sex who exercised in this park.
Counsel General Olivier Afeil asked the heaviest sentence, twenty years of criminal imprisonment, for Mahmoud Kadri, 24, appointed by all of his co-accused like the one who shot on Vanesa Campos on the night of 16 August 17, 2018, what he disputes.
Font of Karim Ibrahim, 29, also referred to the Paris Court of Paris for “organized band murder”, the representative of the Prosecution requested a “complicity of murder” and a fifteen years of imprisonment.
The Advocate General also required five-year imprisonment sentences, including one suspended a stay, against six other accused aged 23 to 34, for their participation in the punitive expedition having leads to murder or for the flight of the crime weapon.
“A feeling of omnipotence”
The lawyers of the latter began to plead in the afternoon, asking the Court not to “validate the thesis of the Prosecution” and not to “let himself be caught by the general convictions” required, without distinction of the personalities of each.
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.
Vanesa Campos, of Peruvian origin, was killed “in sordid conditions”, near his place of work, in one of the most remote places of the Bois de Boulogne, devoid of public lighting, recalled The representative of the public prosecutor. She had ended up “naked, helpless, facing the arrival [of a] pack”, a group of a dozen young men, armed and “galvanized by a feeling of omnipotence,” said Olivier Aferil.
Some have recognized that they struck the clients of sex workers, which had forced them to hire men to protect them. That evening, the leaders of the band wanted to “resume the control of the territory by ceasing the resistance of the prostitutes,” pointed the general lawyer.
In this case where “several versions compete”, “conflicting versions, evolving”, the representative of the Prosecution said proceed “by deductions”.
The verdict is expected Saturday
Who shot with the pistol stolen a week before in a policeman car while he was with a prostitute? Is Karim Ibrahim, as it says – and he is the only – Mahmoud Kadri, for whom his coaccomes “have agreed” to designate him guilty? This “conspiracy theory appears to be unreliable”, swept the general lawyer, for whom “Mahmoud Kadri is the shooter” and Karim Ibrahim, his “accomplice”.
Olivier Aferil requested that the accusation of “organized band murder” reproached to Aymen DIB be requalified in participation in a criminal association, “no element” that he said to him confirmed that he had worn a hit knife to the victim.
His indictment of two and a half hours, after fifteen days of a chaotic audience and marked by various incidents, was interrupted by the insults of one of the accused, Mahmed A., which was expelled a new Box times. His lawyer, Michaël Bendavid, implored the court of “hoist above [of] distressing spectacle” given by his client, who was “not part” of the strip of thieves and therefore had “no mobile”. “There is no indication that it was present at the moment of violence,” BENDAVID insisted, asking for acknowledgment.
“There is a principle: doubt benefits the accused,” also hammered the Defense of Karim A., who denies any participation in the violence.
Defense arguments are continuing Friday. The verdict is expected Saturday.