The man suspected of the fatal shooting against a firefighter in a busy bar in the center of Ajaccio on Monday evening was indicted on Friday for “murder” and “voluntary violence” and imprisoned, we learned from the public prosecutor's office. 'Ajaccio.
Six people were also injured after this forty-year-old used his firearm in the Le Lamparo bar.
After fleeing, Anthony Padovani, already convicted in another case, finally went to the police station on Christmas Day.
Contacted by AFP, his lawyers, Mes Philippe Gatti and Paul Sollacaro, did not wish to make comments on Friday evening.
The “trace of a private dispute between the author of the shots and the victime” is privileged, the prosecutor indicated on Tuesday.
The accused is already known to the courts. In June 2016, he appeared before the Bouches-du-Rhône Assize Court, in Aix-en-Provence, which sentenced him to 30 months in prison for vehicle concealment and acquitted forcriminal associations in the trial of the assassination of Yves Manunta, killed on July 9, 2012 in Ajaccio.
Tried alongside him, Nizzar Feddaoui was sentenced to 15 years of criminal imprisonment for criminal conspiracy and for the arson by an organized gang of the vehicle used by the perpetrators of the assassination.
The fatal shootings at the Le Lamparo bar, just before Christmas, aroused great emotion. Many businesses in the center of Ajaccio had lowered their curtains for 48 hours. They will do the same on Saturday during the funeral of the young firefighter celebrated in Ajaccio Cathedral.
“Aiacciu and Corsica mourn one of their children, whose life was cut short, and several seriously injured. The time has come for mourning. There will necessarily come that of collective reflection to put an end to this madness.”had written on X Tuesday Gilles Simeoni, president of the Executive Council of Corsica.
“Le Lamparo” was closed for two months by prefectural order in the face of “the repetition of serious criminal acts within a short period of time“but also in the face of”significant risk of recurrence“.
On the night of November 15 to 16, the boss of Lamparo was hit by two shots in the leg in front of his establishment, without his life being in danger. A man was placed in pre-trial detention for “attempted homicide”.
