Celine Rossi Was she in danger on December 17, 2021? “Maybe not more than another day”says the director of investigation, this Monday, June 24, at the helm of the Haute-Corse Assize Court. The formula of the gendarmerie adjutant is not trivial, as it reflects the “climate of tensions” reigning for months in the adulterous relationship that maintained Amin Mimoune with this 48 year old woman.
Throughout this second day of trial, the subject tormented the court. Is it this context of violence that led Matéo Hermer-Pietri to commit the irreparable, this winter day on the “cow beach” of Serra di Fium’orbuby firing a gun at his mother’s lover? “He got to a point where he wanted to resolve this situation”, estimates, bluntly, the adjutant in front of the court. This situation is first of all these “attacks” described against a background of alcohol and drugs,Amin Mimounetowards the mother of the accused.
A “jealous and possessive” man
On the stand, a gendarmerie investigator describes in detail an atmosphere of harassment, an individual “jealous and possessive” dont l’attitude “prevents Céline Rossi from cutting ties with him.” In the box, Matéo Hermer-Pietri, gray polo shirt, curly hair falling over his glasses, acquiesces with a discreet nod of the head. A year before the events, in August 2020, a complaint was filed against Amin Mimoune for violence. No follow-up. Neither report from the doctor, despite head trauma.
Did it only dampen the ardor of this 32-year-old man, married and father of two children, who became the victim of the bloodshed of a son tormented by his mother’s worries? A few hours before the events, a final clash had again opposed the two partners. A Céline Rossi evening with “friends” at Old Port led Amin Mimoune to be vindictive with the latter and one of the participants. HAS Twenty-seven, rumors are already swirling about the setbacks of this illegitimate couple. Some describe a context of “disputes” and a woman appeared several times with a swollen face. In plain sight. Or almost. At the hearing, Céline Rossi’s sister did not deviate from a form of MEA culpa : “There is a guilt that lives in us all.”
Behind the window of the box, Matéo Hermer-Pietri retraces this troubled period in his words: “every week my mother had bruiseshe said, facing the microphone, hands behind his back. Of course I blame myself, I see this scene every night, but it wasn’t easy what we were going through at home. My mother was a battered woman. It was too hard for me to see this suffering.”
“I have never seen him violent”
Was Amin Mimoune this violent, cocaine-addicted man portrayed in particular by the defense? On the bench of the civil parties, we are working, through the voice of Me Anna Maria Sollacaroto deconstruct the image of an eruptive thirty-year-old to better paint the silhouette of a disoriented father.
“The person who is described since his death, I do not know himsaid a relative of the deceased on the stand. Amin was a fighter, but, personally, I never saw him violent with a woman.” And this same close to concluding, in a formula which says enough about the “context” which woven the fabric of the drama: “If more people had spoken, we wouldn’t be here.”
