Thirty years in prison were required against a French drug trafficker of international stature during his appeal trial in Evry for the assassination of a compatriot in Venezuela, whose decapitated and dismembered body had been found on a beach in 2012.
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The accused, Ugo Marchic, released under judicial supervision 15 days ago, did not appear on Monday at the start of his trial.
In front of the Assizes of Essonne, Advocate General Rémi Crosson du Cormier motivated his requisitions by the "
appalling
" nature of the assassination of Paul Wolnerman, "
killed to be robbed financially and, to the point of horror, physically, because frightfully mutilated
”.
The magistrate also requested a safety period of two-thirds of the sentence because of the “
constant social danger (that the accused) poses to the social community wherever he is in the world
”.
Ugo Marchic was sentenced at first instance to thirty years of criminal imprisonment by the Assize Court of Paris for this assassination and imprisoned in 2015. He was to appear free before that of Essonne on Monday.
An “
error
”, regretted the Advocate General, resulted in his release under judicial supervision a fortnight ago, his pre-trial detention not having been renewed within the allotted time.
The lawyer of the Wolnerman family, Me Vincent Ollivier, deplored Thursday the "
cowardice made of duplicity and malignity
" of the accused.
Ugo Marchic has always denied having killed the man of whom he had become the trusted man, whose trunk had been discovered in a bag washed up on a Venezuelan beach in April 2012. Then known as Marco Ferrari, the accused had concealed the disappearance of the expatriate from his relatives and immediately sold his apartment, his boat and his car on which he had power of attorney.
The Franco-Italian sexagenarian was convicted in absentia by French justice in 2001 for having led international drug trafficking between countries in Latin America and Europe.
The verdict is expected Friday.