A 56-year-old man was shot dead in his home Wednesday evening Poggio-Mezzana, in Upper Corsica. This is Jean-François Servetto, convicted in 2016 for criminal association.
According to our colleagues from Corse-Matin, was hit in the chest by a large-caliber shot, while he was closing the shutters of his house. Aware of the arrival of help, he succumbed to injuries sustained during his evacuation to the hospital in Bastia.
The Bastia prosecutor has opened an investigation into “murder” and “conspiracy”. The victim’s wife alerted the emergency services around 10:50 pm. On the spot, only a trace of blood was visible in front of her two-story house Thursday morning.
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More assassination attempts
Francis Servetto had already escaped an assassination attempt on February 1, 2021 in Haute-Corse, seven years after surviving a first shooting. On July 3, 2013, it was indeed a shooting that this man had survived.
That day three men had been killed by a commando of assassins during an ambush on a mountain road near Silvareccio. The assailants managed to escape, but the gendarmes had discovered guns and ammunition, bulletproof vests, balaclavas and gloves on board the victims’ utility vehicle, which had fallen into a ravine.
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Belief
The sole survivor of the settling of scores, Jean-François Servetto, who was in the targeted vehicle and was seriously injured, was sentenced in May 2016 by the Criminal Court of Bastia to six years in prison for conspiracy. for committing one or more murders in this case.
This condemnation also concerned the threats addressed to the mayor of the town of Linguizetta (Upper Corsica). In January 2021 he was also indicted for criminal association, suspected of having participated in the preparation of a murder in the region of Cargèse (Corse-du-Sud).
In a statement, the anti-mafia committee “A Maffia No – a Vita iè” (No to the mafia, yes to life: ed) regretted that “once again the executioners acted”, indignant that Corsica lives “for the rhythm regular of these death sentences. “” We will never stop affirming that the problem of mafia drift is a priority to be addressed because it affects all developments, “added the commission.
He indicates that he intends to speak to the keeper of the seals, Eric Dupond-Moretti, on a visit to Corsica on Thursday and Friday, “to get out of the denial and silence that are playing the game of the mafia gangs”.
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