This Saturday, December 14, the Loire Atlantique Assize Court handed down a sentence of 22 years of criminal imprisonment against the three main defendants in the Nadir Marouf case. The fourth man, tried for complicity, is sentenced to 15 years in prison.
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The verdict is in.
Twenty-four hours after the rrequests from the attorney general, the Assize Court ruled: the three main suspects, tried for violent robbery leading to death, are found guilty in the Nadir Marouf case.
They are therefore sentenced to 22 years of criminal imprisonment. They are also banned from French territory.
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The fourth man implicated in the case, tried for complicity, was also found guilty and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. “I'm sorry for Nadir, but I'm innocent”he declared on the stand this Saturday morning.
The body of Nadir, 18, was found on August 9, 2020 at the family home in Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire, wrists and ankles tied, wounds on his body and a pillow on his face.
This macabre scene was discovered by a friend of the young man. At the time, the rest of Nadir's family was in Spain on vacation.
Later, the autopsy concluded that he died of asphyxiation. It was the DNA traces found on site and telephone studies which then allowed investigators to trace the three main suspects, arrested in the following months.
These three men had entered the family home with the aim of stealing the sum of 3,700 euros in cash. This money was collected during the search for the Aïcha mosque in Nantes, where the victim's father-in-law is deputy treasurer.
According to the civil parties, the “instigator” of the theft is a fourth man, aged 63, who knew Nadir's family and knew that his father-in-law kept this money in cash.
“What the investigative work reveals is that we are not facing a burglary that went wrong, but a criminal project,” the Advocate General then declared during her requisitions, Friday December 13.
With Lucie Reynaud, journalist on site.
