The Paris prosecutor's office is asking for the assizes for nine men, three of whom are accused of having murdered in 2018 in the Bois de Boulogne Vanesa Campos, a 36-year-old trans prostitute of Peruvian origin.
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A few days after the murder, a first crackdown had allowed the implication of five people in the judicial investigation opened for murder in an organized gang, but the main suspect had fled.
Designated by several people as the author of the fatal shooting at Vanesa Campos, Mahmoud K., an Egyptian then aged twenty, was finally arrested in Germany in a home for migrants and indicted in January 2019 in France.
The Paris prosecutor's office therefore requests, in a final indictment of November 9, the referral to the assizes for the assassination of this Egyptian, accused of being "the
sponsor of the punitive expedition.
".
The same qualification is required for Ali A. and Karim I., alleged perpetrators of stabbing and batons.
Six other men who participated in the fatal assault could be tried for criminal conspiracy while a last, minor at the time of the facts, could appear in the juvenile court.
It is up to the investigating judge in charge of the case to make a final decision on a trial for this murder which had aroused the stir of several associations.
During the night of August 16 to 17, 2018, route du Pré Catelan, Vanesa Campos, a tall brunette with long black hair, is found dying by her “
compañeras
”, near her makeshift shelter, some sheets stretched out in a thicket with vegetation chaotic.
After Vanesa yelled their warning cry, “
Chicas todas!
"("
All the girls!
"), The South American prostitutes heard three detonations.
The investigation, entrusted to the Criminal Squad, quickly focused on the group of men mainly of Egyptian origin and known to plunder for weeks the clients of prostitutes during the passes, causing tensions with them.
They maintain a climate of "
terror
", according to the Paris prosecutor's office, which leads South Americans to respond.
The evening of the facts, the Egyptians "
organize a punitive expedition
", according to the expression of justice, which results in the murder of Vanesa Campos, in particular using a revolver stolen a week earlier in the car of a policeman who visited prostitutes.
