Jacques Mariani, a figure of Corsican banditry, was placed in police custody in the investigation into the escape of the multi-repeat robber Redoine Faïd from Réau prison in 2018, we learned on Tuesday from a judicial source, confirming information of the Obs .
The heir to the criminal gang La Brise de Mer was removed from his cell in Baumettes prison in Marseille on Tuesday to be heard by the Brigade for the Suppression of Banditry in Versailles, a source close to the investigation said.
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It is a testimony obtained at the end of 2019 which put the investigators on this track, detailed the Obs. A man suspected of having taken part in the scaffolding of the plan to escape Redoine Faïd, told investigators that a man with a Corsican accent was present, while other witnesses told of the existing links between Jacques Mariani , in prison at the time of the escape, and the entourage of the robber.
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These are the elements that led the investigators to make connections and led to the placement in police custody of Jacques Mariani, notably sentenced in 2008 to 15 years' imprisonment for murder, to verify if this Corsica is not one of his knowledge, details the newspaper.
On July 1, 2018, an armed commando had been placed by helicopter in the courtyard of the Réau penitentiary center, in Seine-et-Marne. Dressed in black, hooded, two men equipped with a Kalashnikov-type assault rifle had emerged from the aircraft before recovering Faïd. The latter was serving his sentence after his conviction for a failed robbery in Val-de-Marne which had cost the life in 2010 to municipal policewoman Aurélie Fouquet.
After three months on the run, the robber was arrested on October 3, 2018 with several relatives, including his brother Rachid, in an apartment in Creil, in the Oise department.
