His hearing was expected after several postponements. Jaoide Fadil, 36, appears on a screen in front of the Haute-Corse Assize Court, this Thursday, November 28. The man is free under an electronic bracelet as part of a five-year prison sentence for the fire at the bar La Mise au verre, in the old port of Bastia. Black gaze, well-trimmed beard, the thirty-year-old wants to reframe things with a gravelly voice: “The victim is me. It’s not him. The murderer is him.”
He is Marcel Vadella, accused since Tuesday before the popular jurors, of having deliberately killed Jamal Fadil and of having attempted to kill Jaoide Fadil, with a firearm, on December 19, 2020, in Lupinu, in the southern districts from Bastia.
Presented as close to organized crime by the courts, Jaoide Fadil has multiple convictions in his criminal record for theft with violence, money laundering, and organized gang fraud. Convictions that he takes before the court with a very particular philosophy: “I work too, I’m not just a thug”he says, referring to his activity in the field of construction.
“I kicked him on the ground. That's normal.”
He also returns to the facts, saying to himself “in shock and sad” after the death of his brother: “Before December 19, 2020, I considered Marcel Vadella as a friend. There was a problem with paying rent. Whether it was 5,000 or 10,000 euros, you don't take someone's life. There is procedures. Knowing that he comes from a family of police officers.
The man who was hit by two bullets on the day of the incident gives his version of the fight that occurred the day before the shooting: “I dodged his punch and punched him. I had the upper hand. I kicked him down. It's normal. I'm defending myself. My brother tried to separate us. “
Although he states that, in his opinion, the altercation was over at that moment, he nevertheless concedes that the accused “must have felt humiliated.” “He's 50 years old and he gets hit by a little kid, he explains. I even offered to settle it face to face since he said that he and my brother had been beaten up together.”
According to Marcel Vadella, the Fadil brothers would have conditioned their departure on payment of the sum of 80,000 euros and would have threatened to burn the establishment and cut its throat: “The 80,000 euros is an invention to defend oneself. As for the slitting of the throat, I am not a jihadist,” retorts Jaoide Fadil.
“I will never be able to forgive Marcel Vadella”
He also gives his story, on the day of his brother's death: “I see him going towards Mr. Vadella. He is talking with him and I pull my brother by the arm and say to him: ''We have nothing more to say to this tramp. Come on, let's go.'' He takes out his gun and shoots us. There were no hits. He shoots me, I fall and then he shoots my brother. I try to get up and he pulls back on top of me. He comes to me and says: ''Today it's you who's on the ground''. He points the gun at me and a lady comes and pushes him to stop. This lady saved my life.”
He refutes his brother Jamal's use of a blade: “It's just lying to try to have self-defense. I would have done the same. Jamal has already been arrested with a handgun. He's not going to regress to carrying a blade.”
He ends up confiding his feelings about this affair: “My brother was a kind person. I will never be able to forgive Marcel Vadella.” The verdict is expected this Friday, November 29, late in the evening.
