"
I have been designated as the next victim
": a sexagenarian, already convicted fifteen times and whose son was murdered in August, obtained the postponement of his trial Friday, November 20 in Ajaccio after being arrested with a pistol in an armored car.
During the immediate appearance hearing before the Ajaccio Criminal Court on Friday morning, Louis Carboni, 64, requested and obtained a postponement to prepare his defense until December 11.
Depressed, he was kept in pre-trial detention until that date.
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"
I had a weapon because I had a misfortune in my family and that I was named as the next victim
", he said during this hearing, referring to the assassination last August of his son Tony, 36, in Ota (Corse-du-Sud).
Louis Carboni has already been convicted fifteen times since 1976, in particular for murder, theft, concealment, carrying a weapon, drug trafficking or escape.
Her other son, Mickael, is in pre-trial detention on suspicion of being involved in an assassination.
The sixty-year-old was arrested Tuesday by customs officials in the town of Vero (Corse-du-Sud) with a loaded 357 magnum pistol and a bulletproof vest in an armored SUV registered in Russia, sources told AFP on Thursday close to the investigation.
The arrival of the vehicle, brought by boat by a woman, had been spotted by customs officials a few weeks ago in the port of Ajaccio.
A search of Louis Carboni's home led to the seizure of a balaclava, a wig and several other bulletproof vests, said Nicolas Mingant, deputy prosecutor, Friday at the hearing.
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The assassination in September 2019 of Maxime Susini had led to the creation of a collective which had accused of this murder a "
band of scoundrels who raged in Cargèse
", without naming a name.
After the assassination of Tony Carboni this summer, his family issued a press release denouncing "
a media campaign organized with the aim of falsely naming the culprits
", regretting between the lines of having been singled out in the assassination of Maxime Susini.
The anti-mafia collective Maxime Susini then said that he felt targeted by the words of the Carboni family which he likened to “
death threats
”, considering himself “
entitled to defend himself if the lives of its members were threatened
”.
The highest representatives of justice on the island had urged, in a rare communication, to avoid "
actions of revenge
", fearing a vendetta.