“It’s nothing, it’s a movie”, had launched to two customs officers the driver of a Golf in which the author of the shooting which had just occurred in front of the air terminal of Bastia Poretta, engulfed, on December 5, 2017 at the end of the morning, after the disembarkation of the flight from Paris. Two figures of island organized crime lay on the ground, targeted by a single gunman.
Antoine said “Tony” Quilichini died on the spot, while Jean-Luc Codaccioni, seriously injured, was going to die in hospital. The first had been released from prison two weeks earlier. In an armored car, he came to pick up the second who was to return to Borgo prison the same evening after five days of leave.
In a May 30 indictment order that The world could read, the investigating judges of the specialized interregional jurisdiction (JIRS) of Marseille, Marie Grandjouan and Valéry Muller, refer seventeen people to the Assize Court of Bouches-du-Rhône. In their eyes, these are the seven authors and accomplices of this double assassination, and ten other people. “unwaveringly loyal”suspected of having helped, and who will be tried for “criminal association”.
In what they describe as “a new stage in Corsican criminal history”the two judges lend Christophe Guazzelli, 30, the “central role”, that of the shooter whose face was covered with a latex mask, modifying his features. That also of the organizer of this “criminal quest”.
“Cracked” phone messages
If Guazzelli remained silent during the investigation, the investigators had managed to “crack” – a first at the time – the messages exchanged by the members of this team, all equipped with PGP telephones, deemed indecipherable. A gold mine for the prosecution as the words are clear.
” Yes !!! I got them popping their FDP heads [fils de pute]» (sic), answers Christophe Guazzelli to an interlocutor. Another congratulates him: “You did a great double hahaha. » He himself wrote the day after the events: “I know I knocked down 2 monuments!! » But it is in a message addressed to his mother that he claims the double assassination: “You know you don’t have to be prouder than yesterday! … to my father I promised him my life at the age of 18! (…) If you have a minimum of respect for my sacrifice of a life and you want to invest in our project, take care of them. We love you “. In these words, the investigators see a tribute to the father killed in 2009 and an invitation to his mother to take care of his loved ones.
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