Like six other defendants, Cathy Châtelain had refused for more than a month to appear before the Bouches-du-Rhône Assize Court. This prison guard, who sold herself in 2017 to a Corsican criminal gang, reappeared, Friday June 28, in the box of the Assize Court to listen to the verdict, head bowed.
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This mother of five children was sentenced to twenty-three years in prison for her participation in the assassinations of Jean-Luc Codaccioni and Antoine Quilichini, executed on December 5, 2017 in front of the Bastia-Poretta airport terminal.
In addition to a definitive ban on exercising any public function, the court imposed socio-judicial monitoring on him for five years after his release with an obligation of care. This additional sentence reflects the jurors’ concern about this uneventful woman who has always claimed to be a member of the clan, her ” family “ she said. “A Parisian like me who arrives in Corsica, who doesn’t speak Corsican and who gets involved in something like that, it’s still strong”she boasted in the investigating judge’s office. After the double murder, she was still ready to poison a figure of island banditry in her cell in Borgo prison.
Sentences served in jails
Christophe Guazzelli, 32, the man who, under a movie mask that completely changed his features, shot two sworn enemies, escaped the life sentence requested against him on Monday, June 24; he was sentenced to thirty years of criminal imprisonment with a security period of twenty years. His brother, Richard Guazzelli, two years his senior, his driver at the crime scene, according to the prosecution, was given twenty-five years of imprisonment with a security period of sixteen years. Sentences that were notified to them by the clerk in the jails of the Aix-en-Provence courthouse because of their refusal to appear.
Christophe Andreani, the lifelong friend, ready to do anything for the Guazzelli brothers, was sentenced to twenty-five years in prison, as was Marseille’s Abdel-Hafid Bekouche, described by the prosecution as a member of a « quatuor criminel ». Same sentence of twenty-five years of imprisonment for Ange-Marie Michelosi, another ” orphan “ who, too, had sworn to take revenge on the opposing clan led by Jean-Luc Germani, to whom he attributed the assassination of his father, a figure of banditry in South Corsica, in 2008.
In this criminal revenge scenario that investigators deciphered by reading 3,000 messages exchanged between the accused, Ange-Marie Michelosi is the one who recruited the prison guard. “And the information that allowed people to die, I am proud of it”, he boasts a few hours after the double assassination. For logistical assistance and the provision of his private plane, Jaouad Sebbouba was sentenced to twenty years in prison. His father, Ali Sebbouba, was assassinated in May 2022 in the wake of this affair.
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