This Wednesday, December 18, the Marseille criminal court found Lucas Tocheport guilty of the attempted fire perpetrated on the A Macciotti restaurant, in Centuri (Haute-Corse), on July 20, 2020. Aged 19 at the time of the facts, the defendant was sentenced to five years of imprisonment, a €10,000 fine as well as a ban on carrying a weapon and on Corsica for five years.
In an indictment followed to the letter by the magistrates, prosecutor Olivier Capaccio placed the attempted fire in “the opposition between the Guazzelli and Codaccioni clans following the murder of Jean-Luc Codaccioni and Antoine Quilichini in Poretta, in 2017 “. ” Jean-Luc Codaccioni junior cannot attack the Guazzellis directly and therefore attacks the financial interests of their relatives”explained the representative of the public prosecutor, presenting Lucas Tocheport as a member of the Corsican criminal gang known as “Africans“, at the head of which the police placed Jean-Luc Codaccioni junior. In this case, the restaurant run by the family of the partner of Richard Guazzelli, sentenced to 25 years of criminal imprisonment last June and at first instance , for the double assassination at Bastia-Poretta airport alongside his brother in particular.
Confused by DNA traces found at the scene, Lucas Tocheport disputed the facts. “From the first DNA results, the investigators stopped asking questions, argued his lawyer, Me Jean-François Vesperini, denouncing investigations carried out with blinders“. The court did not hear it that way, the defendant has ten days to lodge an appeal.
