A crime of incredible violence, tinged with a "fundamentally anti-Semitic character". On December 1, 2014, Laurine and Jonathan saw three hooded and armed men disembark at their home in the Port district in Créteil (Val-de-Marne). The couple are gagged, tied up, beaten. The barrel of a gun is placed in Jonathan's mouth. The attackers search all over the apartment for cash because, they say, "Jews don't put money in the bank." Jonathan's card is stolen: “If I don't come back, the bank codes were wrong. Kill them, ”says one of the robbers.
The ordeal lasts almost an hour. During these long minutes, Houssame Hatri amused himself by dropping knives on Jonathan, telling him to act for his “brothers in Palestine”. Laurine, tied up and taken to a room in the apartment, is raped by one of the thieves. The ultra-violent robbery has a significant impact at the national level. In Créteil, nearly 1,000 people take part in a march to denounce this attack. The Minister of the Interior at the time, Bernard Cazeneuve, evokes an attack "whose anti-Semitic character seems proven".
On the run before the trial
After a few days, three men are arrested by the PJ. Two of them, Abdou Salam Koita and Ladje Haidara, attended the July 2018 trial and were sentenced to 8 and 13 years in prison. Authors of the anti-Semitic comments Houssame Hatri was sentenced to 16 years of detention, but fled before the trial. It cannot be found for months. On January 14, the police from the Central Office for the Fight against Organized Crime (OCLCO) were finally assigned to get their hands on the fugitive and deliver him to justice. For investigators who start the investigation from scratch, there is a good chance that the young man, now 24, has fled to Algeria. An important work is carried out on his relatives. Their calls are traced, their movements analyzed. During the month of February, the fugitive is located in Maghnia, in western Algeria.
On July 23, after extensive monitoring work, the Algerian authorities questioned Houssame Hatri. Presented to a judge, he was imprisoned. If Algeria - like France - does not extradite its nationals, French justice recently denounced the facts to its Algerian counterpart. Houssame Hatri, originally from Créteil, should be tried again soon on the other side of the Mediterranean for his crimes committed in France. "It's a good signal from the Algerian authorities," said a source close to the investigation. They played the game and this is important, because it sends a message to many criminals who act in France and then go into hiding in Algeria: from now on, they can no longer be quiet. "
A trafficker arrested in July
Proof of this good collaboration between the authorities of the two countries, Houssame Hatri is not the only Franco-Algerian wanted in France to have been arrested this summer in Algeria.
In October 2019, the National Fugitive Search Brigade (BNRF) of the OCLCO was thus tasked with getting their hands on Noureddine B., born in 1988 in Grenoble and sentenced in January and February 2018 to 9 and 4 years in prison for international drug trafficking. Last February, the trafficker was located in Oran by the French police, who transmitted the information to Algeria. The fugitive, who had resumed his life near Oran, was finally arrested on July 27. Placed under judicial control, he should also be tried in Algeria when French justice has officially denounced the facts.
