International drug trafficking: up to fourteen years in prison required against Guazzelli brothers

The Guazzelli brothers have been tried since June 13, with twenty -one co -country, by the Marseille Criminal Court for international drug trafficking.

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With a permanent smile hanging on the lips and the features of a brown thirty -something which, in Bastia, was worth the nickname “Beau Gosse”, Christophe Guazzelli wanted to become a godfather. With his older brother, Richard, and other sons of barons of the sea breeze, he wanted to revive this Corsican criminal gang of which their father, Francis Guazzelli, had been one of the founders, in the late 1970s. It is this analysis that the Prosecutor Isabelle Candau delivered, in charge of the prosecution of the specialized interregional jurisdiction of Marseille, Tuesday, June 28, in a indictment at the end of which she claimed fourteen years in prison against Christophe Guazzelli. And twelve years against his brother, Richard, more discreet, “the unmissable shadow man, the group’s banker”.

With twenty -one co -converse, the Guazzelli brothers, aged 30 and 32, have been tried since June 13 by the Marseille Criminal Court for international drug trafficking, a chain since negotiations with suppliers In Spain until the resale in Marseille cities and in the districts of Ajaccio and Bastia. “This file is imports, investment structures, modes of transport, markets, they are hundreds of thousands of euros, tons of drugs,” said Emilie Ramousse, vice-procureure, another voice of this indictment. In their eyes, this affair illustrates “this Corsica gangrenous by the financial windfall of drug trafficking”.

“We have never gone so far at the heart of a criminal group with almost mafia functioning,” said Isabelle Candau. Some time after their arrest, at the end of December 2017, the PGP phones deemed to be inviolable from this united group, “coached as a football team”, had been decrypted. The messages read over the course of two weeks of debate retrace links with other European banditry teams, report deliveries, accounting, in all transparency. Faced with these overwhelming exchanges, some defendants assert their right to silence. “No comments”, have continued to kindly oppose Richard and Christophe Guazzelli, but also Christophe Andreani, “the host of the resale markets in Corsica” against which ten years in prison and 100,000 euros fine were fine were required. Right not to respond also claimed by Ange-Marie Michelosi, whose father, killed in 2008, was presented as a member of banditry in Corse-du-Sud. Eight years in prison and 100,000 euros fine have been claimed against this polished boy who multiplies the “with the respect that I owe to the court …”

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