Wednesday, Sept. 06, 2023 at 7:02 p.m. – Updated at 7:02 p.m.
The Advocate General demanded, this Wednesday, September 6, a sentence of seven years in prison against Yassine Akhazzanepresented by the prosecution as “the instigator” of the violent burglary of the home of Jean-Marc Ettoriowner of the Corsicatour tourism company and the Tours FC football club.
On the night of June 11 to 12, 2018, around 3 a.m., this business manager was attacked and robbed at his home in Porto-Vecchio. The septuagenarian was robbed of several items, including jewelry, a luxury watch, half a gold bar, and a sum of money estimated at 100,000 euros. He was not present at the hearing.
A suspected member of banditry, Yassine Akhazzane, who has fifteen convictions on his criminal record, is suspected by the courts of having carried out the “preparatory acts” for this robbery. This 35-year-old man, presented by the investigation services as a new figure in organized crime, in the region of Proprianoappeared for a criminal association for the preparation of a robbery with a weapon in an organized gang, and kidnapping.
Yassine Akhazzane appeared in detention. He was indeed imprisoned in January 2021 as part of an assassination attempt which, according to police sources, was to take place in the Cargèse region, just after being released from prison, in September 2020.
Extracted from his cell in Pontet (Vaucluse), Yassine Akhazzane appeared before the Court of Appeal without a lawyer. At the first instance hearing, in March 2023, the Ajaccio Criminal Court sentenced him to a seven-year prison term. The other five defendants had been released. The only convicted in this case, Yassine Akhazzane had appealed against his judgment. The Court of Appeal will render its decision on October 4.
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