The Bouches-du-Rhône Assize Court sentenced Mohamed Seghier, 45, and Juan Marti, 41, to 25 years in prison on Friday March 24, both found guilty of the organized gang assassination of the manager. by rapper Jul, in June 2014
The two accused denied having taken part in the murder of Karim Tir, 30, killed on June 12, 2014 in front of a metro station in Asnières (Hauts-de-Seine), near Paris, by two men on a motorcycle.
The prosecution had requested against them 30 years of imprisonment with a security period of 20 years.
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Retaliation cycle
After serving a five-year prison sentence for drug trafficking in Marseille, Karim Tir claimed to have turned the page by settling in the Paris region, becoming the producer of Jul, whose career was beginning to blossom.
According to the prosecution, his death is part of a cycle of reprisals between members of two Marseille drug trafficking clans, the Tir, allied with the Berrebouh, and the Remadnia, associated with a team of criminals from Marignane, including Mohamed Seghier. , according to the judicial police, one of the leaders.
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"
It's a legal fantasy
," defended Mohamed Seghier during the debates, denying that he was at war with the Tir.
"
I have no litigation and no revenge
" to satisfy, he said, justifying his presence in Paris a few weeks before the assassination by his association with Sabir Titouh, alias "
Titax
", a rising figure in Parisian banditry , for auto theft.
Associations of criminals
The prosecution opposed him to the surveillance of Jul's manager operated by this team, in the company of Zakary Remadnia.
A few hours after the assassination, the latter and Juan Marti left the Paris region to return to Marseilles, where Zakary Remadnia was assassinated a month later.
Throughout the debates, Zakary Remadnia and Sabir Titouh - also the victim of a settling of accounts in 2015 - were designated as the perpetrators of the assassination of Karim Tir.
Two other defendants, prosecuted for criminal association, were convicted: the mistress of "
Titax
", who received three years in prison with a suspended probation, and a defendant who had provided the apartment used to house "
les Marseillais
", who was sentenced to five years in prison, including three and a half years with a probationary reprieve.
The Assize Court, on the other hand, acquitted Youser Titouh, Sabir's brother, against whom the Advocate General had requested eight to ten years in prison and two other defendants, including the companion of "Titax", who were accused
of
having acted as logisticians.
