The motive remains mysterious. But maybe not for long. This Tuesday morning, at dawn, two men were arrested in the case of the murder of Mounir Chérifi, a figure of banditry. On November 20 in Paris (20th century), the 47-year-old victim was found lying on the ground in a building hall in the Amandiers district, nicknamed Banana City.
The firefighters tried in vain to revive him. Less than a month later, police officers from the criminal brigade, acting under the commission of a Parisian judge, arrested two suspects as part of this open investigation for intentional homicide by an organized gang.
Both men are inhabitants of the 20th century. If one, aged 31, is not known to the police, the other, 33, has already been involved in several cases in the past. We do not know what the nature of their relationship was with “Little Mounir” or “Little Cat”, as Mounir Chérifi was nicknamed.
The criminal beaten to death
The night of the tragedy, it was a little after midnight when a resident warned the police that an attack was underway in the street. When the patrol arrives, they see nothing unusual. Thirty minutes later, the firefighters were called to come to the aid of “Petit Mounir”. He is then lying on the ground and in cardiorespiratory arrest in the common areas of this building where his mother still lives. His death will be declared by a doctor around 1 a.m.
According to information collected by the criminal brigade, two men had beaten their victim to death, whose face had been completely swollen. Given the victim’s criminal record, many avenues could be explored. The name of Mounir Chérifi remains associated with the vendetta in which the brothers Benbouabdellah and Yassine Cheambi have been engaged for more than twenty-five years. Bosses who grew up together at La Banane, maintaining friendships in their childhood before mutual hatred consumed them.
The trail of a local settling of scores?
A war which perhaps dates back to September 10, 1997. That day, a young person was killed during a terrible misunderstanding at the corner of rue des Amandiers and rue des Panoyaux in Paris (20th century). The Banana team (from the time it was united) is convinced, wrongly, that these young people on scooters are rivals of Barbès (18th century) who have come to settle scores.
The eldest of the “Benbou” gets behind the wheel of a Clio with his little brother armed with a shotgun on his right. He shoots three times and gets fifteen years. His eldest will take eight years. The two brothers then accuse a third man, Mounir Chérifi, of having left the loaded weapon in the vehicle (even though it was not normally loaded according to them). “Little Cat” will be sentenced to fifteen years in prison on appeal.
Is there a connection between the vendetta and the murder of “Little Mounir”? We don’t know anything about it. “What is certain is that in the world of organized crime, we execute our victims,” a police source told us about a month ago. You don’t hit them like that with all the risks that it entails. The suggestion of a local settling of scores or even a bad meeting is undoubtedly more credible.” Since the events, according to those around him, Mounir Chérifi had a more orderly life. He had worked as a cleaner and was looking to open his own cleaning company.
