A prostitute had been murdered in 2016 by her pimp, herself died in the fire of the Parisian apartment she rented. She had ordered her accomplices to destroy the evidence of her crime, before being herself trapped by the flames.
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Penas up to twelve years in prison were pronounced on Friday evening by the Paris Assize Court to the trial of the “cleaning” of the murder of a prostitute on the orders of her “boss”, herself deceased In the fire on to cover the crime scene.
The heaviest sentence was pronounced against Mourad B., 29, that witnesses had seen fleeing, seriously burned after the explosion which blowed a whole floor of a peaceful building, From rue Fondary, in the 15th e arrondissement of Paris, August 3, 2016. During their intervention, the firefighters had discovered the calcined body of Maria Paz Gallardo Gonzales, “Macquerelle” of 26 years old .
The investigation had made it possible to establish that after an argument with one of her prostitutes who threatened to denounce her to the police for silver stories, Ms. Gallardo Gonzales had offered 20,000 euros to her boyfriend Occasional, Moncef D., so that he “gets rid” of the young woman. Moncef D. and a friend, Kamel Z., then decide to make believe that they killed the girl – that they intend to let go – and recover the money. But when they got back into the apartment, the pimps had already killed Alixon Julietta Ortega Cano, a 26 -year -old Colombian, about thirty stab wounds.
“cleaners” condemned
The two men are afraid and leave the place. The Spaniard offers 20,000 euros, this time for “cleaning”. A new operation is mounted, with Mourad B. and three other accomplices. The “cleaners” try to erase the traces of blood but the murderer decides that it is necessary to set fire to the apartment. It is then that the deflagration occurs which will kill the young woman in the blow and will seriously injure Mourad b.
The latter was found guilty of the fire causing the death of Maria Gallardo Gonzales and was condemned, like the other “cleaners”, for the transport of the body and the non-denunciation of the crime. The others were sentenced to sentences ranging from two years, a farm to three years’ imprisonment for the concealment of the body or non-denunciation. An eighth man tried for helping Mourad B. In his run was sentenced to four months suspended prison sentence.
The sentence planned for the concealment of the corpse after a murder “is not very important but this offense says something of you”, perhaps “contempt” for the human body, advanced President Dominique Legrand. Another prostitute, Leniska C., who was in the apartment with the “mackerel” when she killed Alisson Ortega Cano, was acquitted of complicity in murder and sentenced to two years in prison, including six months suspended for The non-denunciation of the crime. “We are relieved that her innocence, which she has been proclaimed for more than five years, finally recognized,” reacted her lawyers, Margot Pugliese and Clémence Witt.