A fifth indictment took place in the investigation into the attempted assassination of Guy Orsoni in September 2018, after that of the alleged leader of the “Petit Bar” gang, the specialized interregional court said on Friday, October 9 ( Jirs) from Marseille.
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Joseph Menconi was "
indicted and imprisoned on Monday, October 5 for criminal association with a view to the commission of a crime and concealment in an organized gang
", declared the JIRS, responsible for serious organized crime, confirming a Obs information.
On September 13, 2018, while driving in broad daylight at the wheel of an armored car in Ajaccio, Guy Orsoni, son of the former nationalist leader Alain Orsoni, was targeted and injured by the passenger of an armed motorcycle of an assault rifle.
He is himself indicted in two cases.
Close to the "Brise de mer" gang
Acquitted on appeal in 2009 for the robbery of a Brink's van at the end of 2000 and in 2006 for a double assassination committed in Corsica in 2001, Joseph Menconi escaped in 2003 from Borgo prison armed with a false lance. rockets and was considered close to the Bastia gang of the “Sea Breeze”.
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In the assassination attempt on Guy Orsoni, Menconi joined four other people on the bench, including Jacques Santoni, the alleged leader of the “Petit Bar” criminal gang, who was indicted on October 1 for “
complicity in attempted murder in an organized gang with premeditation
","
association of criminals with a view to committing a crime
"and"
concealment by an organized robbery
".
Aged 42 and quadriplegic, he was placed under an electronic bracelet with a ban in particular from traveling to Corsica.
Ange-Marie Gaffory, already in detention and prosecuted for the assassination of Jean-Michel German in September 2016, Pierre-François Luccioni and Philippe Porri were also indicted for participation in a criminal association with a view to committing a crime in this case.
Several targets escaped the police strike carried out on September 18 on the rogatory commission of an investigating judge of the JIRS who has since decided to relinquish the judicial police in favor of the research section of the gendarmerie of the island of Beauty.