Heavy sentences of 25 to 30 years of criminal imprisonment were required Thursday at the Nice Assize Court, where the assassination in 2011 of the head of a club of “bikers” and the attempt murder of his girlfriend.
The Advocate General requested against one of the defendants, “Tess”, a minor at the time of the events, a 25-year sentence, and a 30-year sentence for the two other defendants, Nicolas Pastorino and Marvin Zmorek, boys then 18 years old.
The Advocate General also requested five years in prison for Alexandru Dulce, another member of the club, for complicity in an assassination attempt, as well as five-month suspended prison sentence against the parents of one of the defendants who made evidence disappear.
Methodically, the public prosecutor endeavored to demonstrate that the only motive for this sordid assassination with knives was “hate, resentment and revenge”. The defendants, Nicolas Pastorino, Marvin Zmorek and “Tess”, argued during the trial that they were somehow “compelled” to kill. According to the Advocate General,
“the defendants, arrested more than a year after the facts, constructed this explanation a posteriori according to which the assassination of Mayeul Gaden was the only way to get rid of his grip (… golds), never a member of the club was retaliated against for leaving, and they knew that very well.”
Mayeul Gaden, leader of a clan of “bikers” without motorcycles, with rites close to those of a sect, had been killed with knives (no less than 32 penetrating injuries, including three to the heart), his body had been hidden in a barn in Isola 2000. His girlfriend, “Manuela”, lured out of her home, was then knocked unconscious, then stoned with rocks in this barn before, finally, her assassins saved her life. The assassination had been kept secret for more than a year.
