A 47-year-old man was beaten to death in a building lobby in the Cité de la Banana, located in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday. Two suspects are on the run and the criminal brigade of the Paris judicial police has been charged with the investigations, indicates a source close to the case. The victim, Mounir C., was well known to the police and justice services, specifies Paris Match.
The forty-year-old was violently attacked shortly before 1 a.m. in the lobby of 97 rue des Amandiers, an area known for its drug trafficking. Mounir C., born in Algeria, was a figure in the city. According to initial evidence, the two attackers beat him, particularly to the head. He then allegedly suffered strangulation. He was pronounced dead on site at 1:03 a.m., despite being treated by emergency services while he was in cardiorespiratory arrest.
Convicted of murdering teenager in 1997
On the evening of September 11, 1997, when he was 20 years old, Mounir C. found himself involved in the murder of a 17-year-old teenager from Hauts-de-Seine. The victim had been mistakenly identified as a member of a competing gang, our colleagues indicate.
In this case, Mounir C. received a sentence of 10 years of criminal imprisonment in 2000. He was retried on appeal by the Assize Court of Val-de-Marne in February 2002 and sentenced to 15 years in prison . The Benbouabdellah brothers, also well known in the banana city, were also convicted in this case.
