At trial of murder of Vanesa Campos, a police officer, a protector and fractures of prostitution

The hearing days of Monday 17 and Tuesday, January 18 saw the heterogeneous civil parties at the Paris Court of Assizes, where this case is judged, which cost the life of a prostitute transgender in 2018.

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White shirt and black coat, a man advances to the bar. Profession? Policeman. Status in the trial? Civil party. “The evening of August 9, 2018, I go out of work, I put my service weapon and my charger in a bag, all in my car trunk. It’s a summer night, I’m fine, I go to Bois de Boulogne. I train in the most enlightened alley. The lady is on the other side of the sidewalk. I discuss fifteen seconds with her and I hear a big bog. “Three people are stepping his car and steal his bag. Five days later, it is his weapon that is used by the same group of Egyptian thieves to kill Vanesa Campos, worker of sex transgender at the Bois de Boulogne.

“I have blood on your hands. It’s not me who fired on Vanesa Campos but I feel like it’s me who did it,” regrets the policeman, who recognizes Then two of his aggressors in the box, Mahmoud K., suspected of being the shooter, and “El Nano” (“the dwarf”), Karim I., considered the head of the band and the sponsor of the descent of these Young clandestines, who cost the Peruvian life of 36 years. Suspended for three months, this member of the police has since resumed the service and tries to “live with that on consciousness”.

These Monday 17 and Tuesday, January 18, the Assize Court of Paris, where is judged this murder, sees the civil parties as heterogeneous as the entire protagonists of this cloudy file are. Takaré B., He is heard as “protector” of the prostitutes of wood. “People come to break the cars from the people who go to the woods with them,” he says. He had “fear, really too scared” when he also became the target of the raids committed by the Egyptians. He took blows at the evening of murder. “I do nightmares, I do not sleep at all.” At the gates of the capital, the Bois de Boulogne seems to be a very criminatory place, is the general lawyer. In August 2018, the month of the murder of Vanesa, 89 handrails and 11 complaints are deposited on the zone.

“Look me well”

In the midst of Takaré B., Mahmed A., accused of “merciful association”, rises in the box. An incident among others, in this hearing heritage. Of the six accused, he is the one for whom the recurring expression of “frustration intolerant” psychiatrists is the most relevant. He wants to go to the bathroom. The president refuses to suspend the hearing in the second, reminding him that the Court is not at its disposal. He gets angry, the gendarmes get up. “You really behave like a little boy.” His neighbor of box, Karim A., removes his mask so that Takaré B. can recognize him as one of the aggressors of the wood. “Look well, because I have never been there,” he cries in a clumsy and threatening French.

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