Like six other defendants, Cathy Châtelain had refused to appear before the Bouches-du-Rhône Assize Court for over a month. This prison guard, who sold herself to a Corsican criminal gang in 2017, reappeared in the dock of the Assize Court on Friday, June 28, 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 permanent ban on exercising any public function, the court imposed socio-judicial monitoring for five years after her release with a requirement for treatment. This additional sentence reflects the jurors’ concern about this ordinary 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 Corsica and who gets into something like this, 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 years old, the one who, under a cinema mask completely modifying his features, shot two sworn enemies, escapes the life sentence required Monday June 24 against him; he is sentenced to thirty years of criminal imprisonment with a security period of twenty years. His brother, Richard Guazzelli, two years older than him, his driver at the crime scene, according to the prosecution, was sentenced to twenty-five years in prison with a security of sixteen years. Sentences which were served on them by the clerk in the jails of the Aix-en-Provence courthouse due to their refusal to appear.
Christophe Andreani, the lifelong friend, ready to do anything for the Guazzelli brothers, was sentenced to twenty-five years of imprisonment just like the Marseillais 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 in Southern Corsica banditry, in 2008.
In this criminal revenge scenario that investigators deciphered through the reading of 3,000 messages exchanged between the accused, Ange-Marie Michelosi was the one who recruited the prison guard. “And the information that led to people’s deaths, I’m 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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