It's an incredible story of revenge in which a disabled guitar teacher, a physiotherapist and three Georgian hired killers rub shoulders.
The latter are sought after by all European police forces.
In this case, opened for attempted murder, four men and a woman are under investigation by a judge of the interregional jurisdiction of Paris.
Only Besik, an illegal taxi driver at Beauvais airport (Oise), is still behind bars.
It is 7 a.m. on May 16, 2019, rue Nicolo, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, when Michel, a physiotherapist, rides a motorcycle towards his office.
He crosses the road of a Citroën Saxo which pretends to let it pass before rushing towards the biker.
The shock is terrible.
Michel, 65, is ejected from his machine and owes his salvation only to his helmet.
The mad car immediately takes to flight after what appears to be an accident.
Michel files a complaint and medico-legal emergencies grant him four days of total incapacity for work.
The track of revenge was the right one
Investigators retrieve CCTV footage of the city and find that two men were in the car that had been chasing the biker for quite some time.
The investigation is tightening around Sylvain F., 49, a former patient who holds the paramedic responsible for a serious handicap caused by improper handling of his spine.
This guitar teacher had even taken the physiotherapist to court, which concluded that the practitioner had injured his patient.
And Sylvain had been compensated up to 30,000 euros.
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Telephone interceptions confirm the first suspicions.
Investigators from the first judicial police district learned that Sylvain, through his wife and stepfather, from this region of the Caucasus, recruited a team of Georgian mafia killers.
The fingerprint survey taken on the Citroën Saxo, found a few streets away from the scene of the accident, makes it possible to isolate the genetic profile of Besik, a Georgian living in Montataire (Oise).
The suspects arrested two days later
On May 18, investigators arrested Sylvain, his wife Maria, his father, a family friend and the Besik taxi.
They are all suspected of having taken part in this revenge project.
Sylvain and the members of his family confess, while specifying that they did not wish the death of the physiotherapist.
"They wanted to mutilate him to give him the change of his coin", adds a source close to the file.
Maria confides that with the help of her father, they contacted a member of the Georgian mafia who sent three henchmen to do this dirty work.
The only Georgian of the team to remain in France, Besik, assures that he transported the killers from the airport to Paris and helped them buy the Saxo which was used to commit this crime, without having knowledge of their project.
“There are suspicions hanging over him because many of these illegal taxis are known to belong to criminal groups, explains a magistrate.
In this case, this man supplies the car and drives the guys.
He still seems to be helping the killers.
The trio also immediately left France after the attempted murder.
The investigating judge issued three European arrest warrants against them.
Beauvais airport, gateway to Caucasian criminal organizations
Even if the health crisis has put a serious brake on the activity of Beauvais airport, since 2017 it has been the gateway for thieves of Georgian and Moldovan origin.
"They enter France with a three-month residence permit or ask for asylum, we are powerless," said a border police commissioner.
The small tarmac where the aircraft of the company Wizz Air land has become a strategic place for criminal organizations which take charge of these nationals on their arrival from Kutaisi.
“They take care of everything,” reports our source.
We assume that this aid constitutes for these newcomers a kind of debt which they are forced to repay by the commission of raids, shoplifting or burglaries, on behalf of this mafia.
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