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Gang war in Paris: the alleged murderers of Boubou on the way to the assizes

2021-05-09T02:07:00.701Z


Boubou Yatera was shot dead in 2017 during a brawl between young people from Riquet neighborhoods to Cambrai. Six persons


This absurd gang war has been mourning the families of these neighborhoods for years.

The deaths follow one another, the trials follow one another and hatreds persist in this corner of eastern Paris.

It is in this context that the murderers of Boubou will soon be tried.

This 18-year-old young man was shot dead in September 2017 in Paris in the 19th arrondissement.

At the beginning of March, the prosecution requested the referral of six young people to the Paris Assize Court for intentional homicide, attempted murder and criminal conspiracy.

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This September day, around 11:45 p.m., residents warn the police after hearing several detonations. At the corner of Henri-Verneuil and Gaston-Tessier streets, near Rosa-Parks station, about fifty young people from the Cambrai and Riquet districts engage in a huge fight. When help arrived, the police discovered Boubou Yatera lying on the ground shot in the chest. The young man was taken to hospital but died a few hours later. Two other young people were injured. The first was shot in the shoulder and the second in the right arm and flank. The Yatera family is once again in mourning. Almost a year earlier, his 25-year-old brother Demba was shot dead in the neighborhood over a settling of scores.The criminal brigade of the Paris judicial police was responsible for carrying out the investigations but no suspect was arrested in this case.

A genetic fingerprint found on a cartridge

After the murder of Boubou, the investigators of the second district of the judicial police discovered a genetic fingerprint on a cartridge which leads them to man and his brother, both from the city of rue Cambrai, and who immediately after this murder left France for Tunisia. They will be arrested on October 13, 2017 when they get off the plane at Orly airport. Osama admits that he was present during the fight and that he was armed with a pistol. But he maintains that he was loaded with blank bullets. He would only have opened fire to frighten the rival gang. He adds that, in the crush, his weapon would have fallen to the ground. His brother also confirms that he was present during the fight before explaining that he gave his brother's weapon to a friend.This young man will be arrested in his turn but explains that he hid this gun in a cupboard located in the common areas of his parents' building. But when the police come to check, the weapon has indeed disappeared.

A suspect designated by public rumor

Rumor has it that the shooter is not Osama but a certain Kamel Z. This young man, aged 24, posted vindictive messages on the Snapchat social network under the pseudonym "Casanova 19". Witnesses and CCTV images allow us to understand that a tall man dressed in black opened fire with a revolver before fleeing on a scooter piloted by an accomplice. Phone taps reveal that threats are brewing in the neighborhood warning that anyone who dares to denounce Kamel Z. would have their legs cut off. The young man is taken from his cell where he is serving a sentence for robbery with violence, July 21, 2018. He confirms that he has posted messages on Snapchat but "that he has nothing to do with this story and that he is not the shooter ”.The owner of the scooter is questioned but assures that his machine was in the hands of another person whom he does not wish to designate.

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The lawyer for the main suspect, Me Jean Christophe Tymoczko, lodged an appeal against the referral of his client to the Assize Court and this procedure will be examined in early June by the investigating chamber.

“My client has been claiming his innocence for twenty-two months.

The only element against him is this video, the quality of which is abysmal.

No one can recognize anyone.

Even if he is accused and if he is in hiding, that does not mean that he has things to hide, ”he explains.

On the side of the prosecution, a magistrate recalls that the charges are also based on telephone interceptions.

"This man was ready to pay another so that he accuses himself in his place," says our source.

Source: leparis

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