Nine men, three of whom are accused of the murder in 2018 in the Bois de Boulogne of Vanesa Campos, a 36-year-old trans prostitute, are returned to the assizes, we learned Monday, February 15 from a judicial source, confirming information from the
World
.
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During the night of August 16 to 17, 2018, route du Pré Catelan, Vanesa was found dying by her “
compañeras
”, near her makeshift shelter, some sheets stretched out in a grove.
Vanesa, born Victor Elias Campos Vasquez in Peru, had just howled their warning cry, “
Chicas todas!
”(“
All the girls!
”).
South American prostitutes had heard three detonations.
For this crime, which highlighted the recurrent attacks on prostitutes on the edge of Paris, an examining magistrate ordered that the three main suspects be tried for "
organized murder
".
The magistrate did not follow the requisitions of the prosecution which retained the premeditation and demanded a trial for “
assassinations
” against these three men in their twenties: Mahmoud K., an Egyptian designated as the author of the fatal shot, as well as Ali A. and Karim I., accused of having stabbed and stabbed.
Six other men are dismissed for "
criminal association with a view to the commission of a crime
".
A tenth suspect, minor at the time of the facts, is returned for theft in a children's court, said the judicial source.
All come from a group of young men, mainly of Egyptian origin, who had been robbing the clients of prostitutes for many weeks during the passes.
They maintained a climate of "
terror
", according to the requisitions of the prosecution, which had led the South Americans to retaliate and engage a man, "
Takaré
", to protect themselves.
The night of the murder the Egyptians had organized "
a punitive expedition
", according to the prosecution.
Armed with tear gas canisters, a knife, tasers, even branches torn from trees.
They also had a gun stolen from a police officer's car a week earlier while he was with a prostitute.
The Strass (Sexual Work Union) and the association for the defense of trans people Acceptess-T had criminalized the law of April 2016 which penalizes the clients of prostitutes, forcing them to isolate themselves away from the police and to be more exposed to assault.
A reading contested by the Mouvement du Nid, abolitionist, which brought a civil action: for its lawyer Lorraine Questiaux, this murder is not "
the fault of the law but of the social contempt of which these people are the object
", "
The fault of an ideology of degradation, of the culture of rape and of patriarchy
".
