Friday February 26 at the beginning of the evening, BFMTV announces that "a 15 year old teenager was shot dead in Bondy";
"The shooters are on the run."
The first images, live from the popular city of Seine-Saint-Denis, show the scene of the crime, the Nelson-Mandela neighborhood house.
Walid, 17, is in front of the screen.
Pale.
“He learned of Aymane's death on TV,” says Fatiha (
Editor's note:
the first name has been changed
), 25, his older sister who welcomes him for the weekend.
The teenager who stopped breathing is his boxing mate and former college buddy, with whom he had been in conflict for a good year.
When he arrived at Fatiha's, Walid had only mentioned a "fight", without going into details.
It was much more serious than that.
He and his half-brother Mohamed, 27, are, in fact, suspected of the murder of the boy who was killed, around 5 p.m., by gunshot while he was inside the municipal space.
The two brothers had disembarked on scooters.
Then, the "big one" had slipped the barrel of his weapon in the opening of the mailbox, before pressing the trigger and reaching Aymane in the thorax.
At dinner, Walid only eats "one bite" of the pasta dish.
It is in a loop: "No, it's not possible, we're going to wake up, it's a nightmare!"
" Sleepless night.
"He said to me:
Every time I close my eyes, I see Aymane's head
," reveals Fatiha, who gradually understood that her "little brother" was involved in the drama.
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At 7 am the next day, this taxi driver takes him to the premises of the judicial police at 93, in Bobigny.
“I feel like I dropped a zombie.
He was pale and couldn't stop crying.
He was afraid, he had never been in police custody, ”she describes.
“He didn't take a bag.
He thought he could go home in the evening, ”remarks his lawyer, Me Vera Goguidze.
He is joined at the same time by Mohamed.
“He's also collapsed.
I had never seen him cry, ”swears Fatiha.
Provided him with the bundle with a change of clothes.
He is prowling in the interrogations.
He has twenty mentions on his criminal record for thefts, fights, refusals to comply and drug trafficking which have already earned him two stays in the shade.
Both come to surrender.
After 48 hours in police custody, the two brothers were indicted for murder and held in a different prison in the same region.
The motive remains nebulous.
"A dispute has opposed the victim and his attackers for nearly a year without the origin being, for the time being, known," reported the Bobigny prosecutor's office.
Simple jealousy or harassment?
Relatives of the victim evoke a rivalry born in the ring between Walid and Aymane, both boxers in a kickboxing club.
According to them, the first "envied" the second, crowned champion of Ile-de-France and qualified for the French Championships.
"Aymane had abilities that the other did not", compares Ahmed, the grieving dad.
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This sporting jealousy would then have degenerated into a street fight filmed on a smartphone, before being shared.
"Aymane smashed him, Walid did not digest, he felt humiliated", decipher two friends of the deceased.
"Social networks lead to overbidding, everyone goes there with his hurtful word," warns an elected representative.
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Upon discovering the video, Walid's big brother would have been "enraged", with the feeling that his family have been "dishonored".
So, he would have intervened, striking a blow with a baton at the head of Aymane who "had to be hospitalized".
“It was misplaced pride,” concludes a thirty-something.
"A conflict of ego", validates a forty-something.
"For two three months, it was harassment", advance a "good friend" of the disappeared.
On the side of the family and lawyers of the alleged attackers who speak for the first time, we defend a completely different version.
For them, the uppercuts and hooks at the Palais des sports have nothing to do with this dark story.
They denounce repeated threats and phone calls from Aymane targeting Walid who wanted to “cut ties” with “frequentation” that had become harmful.
“It is not at all his profile to harass.
The reverse happened: he became Aymane's scapegoat.
He was no longer the cool guy you have to hang out with, because he had become less harsh than him, ”maintains master Vera Goguidze.
Mohamed himself wanted to "protect" Walid.
"He tried to play the role of big brother", assures Me Kheira Flissi-Gherabli, who advises the elder.
"The atmosphere was good-natured"
What is certain is that Walid and Aymane were, for a time, the best "buddies" in the world.
A friendship born in college.
"It happened that Aymane slept at Walid's," Fatiha remembers.
"They would sometimes eat a
chicken together
at the sandwich shop," explains Kamel, a father whose son frequented the "two kids".
In a short video posted on social networks, they are seen side by side, walking in the street.
It's Walid, with a sweat cap and XXL chain links around his neck, who is filming live.
He addresses another "buddy" in the city: "We're going downhill there, you're hot, you're hot!"
"
Aymane, a sturdy teenager of 1m82, shares with her boyfriend her passion for boxing feet-fists.
"It was he who brought him to the club," recalls Christophe Hamza, one of their coaches at the Chris'Fight association.
These athletes do not fight in the same category, one being a cadet, the other a junior.
No official matches, therefore, between the two.
In training, they sometimes have "sparring" duels, without a winner.
“The atmosphere was good-natured.
There was competition but as there is between many of our young people ”, notes another driving force of the club.
Aymane stands out.
"When the coach wanted to give a demonstration, he chose him," rewinds a 15-year-old punching machine.
Walid, "still a baby"
Another certainty: Walid did not have the profile of the tough guy at all.
"A polite kid," boasts a dad who welcomed him into his home.
"Helpful", attests Christophe Hamza.
When this coach exchanged, via WhatsApp, with the high school student, the latter was always respectful.
"Thank you to you coach," he wrote to her recently.
“This is not a guy who does the shit,” notes a high school student who worked with him.
"He is 17 years old but he is still a baby, he still needs mom and dad," says his sister Fatiha.
"Walid, I loved him too much", recognizes a leader of a leisure center who ... "hates him today".
This son of a plumber lived with his divorced mother in the district of Bondy station.
After a sawtooth school career - he repeated a grade in primary - he seemed to have found his way in professional second in the sales sector.
“He dreamed of starting his own clothing business.
He had a good first quarter with 14 average, ”notes Fatiha.
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"He is very discreet, very frail and has a high pitched voice", depicts Me Vera Goguidze who discovered her "client" in police custody.
“I felt like I was facing a child.
He was in a total state of bewilderment.
He clearly has neither the shoulders nor the experience for pre-trial detention.
I looked with tears in my eyes at this teenager, whom I had assisted for three days, leaving handcuffed between two police officers to join a prison cell, ”she is moved.
The "friends" Walid and Aymane would have become the "worst enemies" as a result of "boys' things that get confused for nothing", "banalities".
“Like schoolchildren in a playground.
But here, we are in the misunderstanding, because usually, we do not come to firearms.
Walid was manipulated by his big brother ”, believes a father he met during the white march in memory of the“ little one ”.
“He didn't think about it, he accompanied his brother.
Me, if I say to my little brother:
Come, follow me, well, he comes
”, launches an“ elder ”.
Walid repeated to his lawyer that he was not aware that "his brother was carrying a weapon when they went to the Nelson-Mandela center".
A judicial file nourished for the big brother
Mohamed has an already busy judicial past.
He left school "very early".
"It was bad company and the possibility of easy money that made him switch to the deal," sums up a relative.
In 2015, when his father died, he was behind bars for drug trafficking.
“A right of exit had been refused to him for the funeral.
This disappearance traumatized him, ”recalls his half-sister Fatiha.
“When he got out of the chtar (prison), he was a little lost,” relates a young man in his thirties.
“Me, he always called me
Uncle
.
He said to me:
Uncle, on my life, I'm going to stop my bullshit!
“, Testifies Karim, forty-something who is a“ big brother ”in the city.
Mohamed's stronghold is Bondy-Nord, notably “13”, a “deal point” at one end of Avenue Jean-Lebas and its orange-tinted public housing bars where young people “bicravent” (sell drugs) without hiding.
In the city, his “blaze”, his nickname, is “Mino”.
"A little thug", synthesizes a former educator.
Those who approached him evoke a "boy not mean" but sometimes "impulsive, sanguine", "half-angel half-demon".
“In his brain, it sometimes goes too fast.
As soon as there is a problem, his face changes, ”observes a Bondynois of the same generation.
"But he is quiet with the people here", indicates a trader who met him "every day".
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His sister Fatiha prefers to remember that he "has a huge heart".
“It's a teddy bear.
You need a service, he gives it to you, ”she defends.
"It's hard to believe after what he did, but he is fundamentally nice," pleads, for his part, Me Kheira Flissi-Gherabli.
“He's a big one but it's still a small one in his head.
It lacks benchmarks ”, comments a“ former ”35 years of Bondy-Nord, in full session of“ degraded ”at the hairdresser.
A premeditated gesture?
After the fatal gunshot, the portrait of "Mino", suspect number 1 quickly circulated on Snapchat.
He appears there in selfie mode with headphones in his ears, laptop in hand and shoulder bag in Gucci colors.
“He was in tears when he heard that Aymane was dead.
He shot to scare, not to kill.
It is not a gesture of coolness ”, affirms the“ old man ”in fatigues.
“He immediately regretted it.
He didn't know he had given death.
He learned it later on TV.
The intention to kill has never been present, ”says his lawyer.
Many do not believe this thesis of bullying.
“He got on a scooter, he took a caliber and loaded it, he knew what he was doing, he's clearly coming to kill.
We are not in a video game there, ”recalls a neighborhood autoentrepreneur.
The two "brothers" did not reside under the same roof.
But saw each other regularly.
“It's a brotherly relationship, with a lot of love.
The big has always protected the little one so that the latter does not fall into the trap of delinquency, ”insists Me Kheira Flissi-Gherabli.
A sacred bond which made them fall, together, in the crime of blood.
