Corsica: Jean-Luc Codaccioni sentenced to three years in prison for breach of arms legislation

Presented as a member of banditry on the island, the 33 -year -old man had been arrested heavily armed aboard a armored vehicle on Sunday.

by Paul Ortoli (Ajaccio, correspondent)

Jean-Luc Codaccioni, 33, presented as a member of the island environment, was sentenced Thursday, December 8, by the Bastia court to three years in prison and was kept in detention. This conviction for the breach of the legislation on the weapons of categories B and C, was accompanied by the ban on holding a weapon for ten years and a customs fine of 700 euros. One of his friends, Mathieu Gaffory, 25, also known to justice, received a sentence of two years’ imprisonment and similar measures.

Sunday, December 4, the two men had been checked in Balagne (Haute-Corse) aboard a Toyota brand armored pick-up. During the control, two semi-automatic pistols Glock supplied, three rifles and a hunting rifle and nearly 1,000 cartridges had been found in the vehicle. For their defense, the two men had argued without convincing that they went to a part of ball-trap.

In his indictment, the public prosecutor Arnaud Viornery reframed this file with elements of personality. “We are not talking about totally unknown people, who would have found a weapon belonging to Grandpa behind a dusty furniture. (…) It is time to put the facts into perspective, and the elements in our possession. There is an inheritance, in This affair. The inheritance of a glock. The inheritance of a armored vehicle. Those of his father. An inheritance can be prisoner. And Mr. Codaccioni has chosen to be prisoner “, a- he estimated.

head of the “tail called Africans”

The father of Jean-Luc Codaccioni, also baptized Jean-Luc, had also been murdered on December 5, 2017 in the company of another figure in the island, Tony Quilichini, nicknamed “Le Boucher”, Bastia-Poretta airport as part of a vendetta after the fratricidal war which decimated the ranks of the sea bream gang.

A confidential note issued by the central management of the judicial police dating from March 18, indicates that Jean-Luc Codaccioni, known as a figure of banditry, is the head of the “tail called Africans”, linked to Michel Tomi, “Sponsor of the sponsors who find himself at the crossroads of the political world, business, banditry, African heads of state and games” and whose “line of conduct is never to do business in Corsica”.

On the waves of the France Bleu RCFM radio, Mr. Codaccioni’s lawyer, M e Jean-François Vesperini wanted to recall the “simplicity of the file”: “If we look at the case law Usual, the penalty is very largely disproportionate, he may pay the fact of being a son of. “

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