The teenager was killed in November 2016 according to the codes of Narcobanditis, on the basis of a simple rumor. The two condemned men, who clarify their innocence, announced their intention to appeal.
Le Monde with AFP
“Jimmy” and “ZZ”, the two accused of the murder of Rudy, 15, shot down in November 2016 in Marseille in the style of the account regulations of Narcobanditis, were sentenced to perpetuity criminal imprisonment, Friday 10 December, by the Assize Court of Bouches-du-Rhône. Their convictions have been accompanied by a 22-year-old security measure as requested by the morning parquet.
The jurors of the Court of Aix-en-Provence totally followed the Advocate General Christophe Raffin, according to whom alone could apply a “sentence of definitive social elimination” against this “massacre”, “l ‘Running a 15-year-old boy hindered, killed a ball in the thorax and completed like a dog “, in the hills of Marseille.
If other teenagers were killed on staggering outlets Marseille, they had been victims of shootings, recalled the magistrate: with Rudy, “it’s the first file where we attack directly in this way to a minor of 15 years “.
Break the OMERTA
The accusation was mainly based on the testimony of Nourdine, a friend of Rudy, who confirmed before the jurors seeing the two accused, Khadim Thiam (nicknamed “Jimmy”), 28, and Samir Zerouali (“ZZ” ), 26 years old, take the teenager with them, hand on the shoulder.
“From there, he was no longer in a tunnel that brought him to death. His fate was sealed by those whom Nourdine designates,” said the Advocate General, greeting courage From this witness, who “hung a target in the back and has no interest in saying inaccurate things”.
This testimony to break the Omerta traditionally surrounding the accounts of accounts in Marseille was also at the center of the defense pleadings, which claimed the acquittal. See Rudy move away with Samir Zerouali and Khadim Thiam does not sign their participation in the assassination, insisted the lawyers of the accused. “It’s full of doubt, we have no items, no certainties”, pleaded M e Roch Lusinchi, the defender of “Jimmy”: “who drove him on The places? Who killed? Who put on fire? We are asked for a trouble of elimination on such fragile things “.
” This is the emptiness in terms of evidence “
The absence of material evidence was also brandished by M e Philippe Jacquemin, the defender of Samir Zerouali, alias “zz”: “It is the emptiness in terms of evidence. We are In the delirium, in the incantations of a small band of friends “.
For the Prosecution, Rudy, small carbonist (term designating a seller in the drug trafficking) of the city Jean-Jaurès de Marseille, is, in fact, death because of a rumor: that of giving The Top Departure to the killers in a settlement of accounts committed a few weeks earlier on a parking lot of the Phoocan city. One of the people killed was a “cousin” of Khadim Thiam, a victim of a war of drug territories. According to the judicial police, Rudy is not the donor of the top departure, and had nothing to do in this settlement of accounts.
To the end, the two accused, anchored in the Marseille Narcobanditis and the very heavy judicial, have shouted their innocence. “I’m criticized for me to have shot a 15-year-old attached man,” said Khadim Thiam: “It’s not real, we can not accuse me of that”.
Recalling that in the last three years it has already been sentenced to a total of thirty years in prison, Samir Zerouali has implored the jurors “do not [the] judge compared to [his] reputation”: ” I have no reason to kill someone, I have already taken thirty years, then a fare more! But I can not confess to please “. They both announced their intention to appeal this verdict.