The Bouches-du-Rhône Court of Appeal sentenced, on the night of Friday to Saturday, September 21, Mohamed Seghier, 46, and Juan-Gino Marti, 42, to thirty years of criminal imprisonment for the organized gang murder of rapper Jul’s manager in 2014. The appeal jurors thus increased the sentence of twenty-five years of imprisonment that had been imposed on them in March 2023.
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The two accused fiercely denied their participation in the assassination of Karim Tir, 30, who was shot dead at the wheel of his vehicle by men riding on motorbikes in front of a metro station on 12 June 2014 in Asnières-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine).
“I’m a car thief, I could do a robbery but I’m not a killer”hammered out during the debates Mohamed Seghier, presented by the judicial police as one of the influential members of a team of criminals from Marignane (Bouches-du-Rhône), a town near Marseille.
Karim Tir, released from prison two years earlier after serving a five-year sentence for drug trafficking, had turned to music production, notably becoming manager of Jul, whose career was beginning to develop.
Will for revenge
The attorney general, Christophe Raffin, who had requested thirty years of imprisonment for the two accused, included this assassination in a “vendetta”a bloody conflict between two Marseille criminal teams involved in drug trafficking. “The Tir and the Remadnia, that’s their dispute, I have nothing to do with them”contradicted Mohamed Seghier while, according to the prosecution, his involvement was due to a desire to avenge the assassination of his brother Karim Seghier in August 2010.
Detailing the circumstances of the assassination of Karim Tir, the first assize court, in March 2023, had considered that “The shooter who appears limping on the surveillance camera footage can only be Zakary Remadnia”a young man shot dead a few months later in Marseille.
Mohamed Seghier had previously dropped him off at the scene. The first instance assize court also named Juan Marti as the highly experienced driver of the motorcycle that took the shooter away after the shots, a role contested by Mr.it is Anna-Maria Sollacaro and Antoine Guglielmi, who demanded his acquittal.
Mohamed Seghier’s defenders, Mit is Pascal Roubaud and Mehdi Khezami also pleaded for acquittal. “The debates did not allow us to say where Mohamed Seghier was at the crime scene”said M.e Roubaud after the verdict, regretting that “the court sentenced without being able to determine the exact role” of his client.
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A third defendant was sentenced to four years in prison, two of which were suspended, for criminal conspiracy, even though he had been acquitted at first instance. Jul, a rap star from Marseille, will have to pay a fine of 3,000 euros for refusing to appear as a witness during this appeal trial.
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