Photo taken after the assassination of Maxime Susini, an anti-Mafia independence activist.

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  • Three men arrested in early January near Ajaccio are suspected of having wanted to avenge the death of Louis Carboni's son, Tony assassinated in Ota, in Corse-du-Sud, in August 2020.

  • Louis Carboni, 64, has been sentenced since 1976 to a total of 50 years in prison for, in particular, murder, theft, concealment, carrying a weapon, drug trafficking or escape.

  • “I want to know why my son was killed.

    If it's in relation to me, it's like I armed the killers, ”said Louis Carboni during a recent trial in December 2020.

Has a vendetta been avoided in Corsica?

The investigation is oriented towards this hypothesis after the implication of a man, imprisoned and haunted by the murder of his son.

On Monday January 4, three men traveling by car and motorbike, both stolen, were arrested in Alata, on the outskirts of Ajaccio: "They were on the verge of taking action", indicate sources close to the investigation, without the precise objective being known.

The following days, other arrests followed and Louis Carboni, 64 years old and sentenced since 1976 to a total of 50 years in prison, was taken from his cell in Les Baumettes in Marseille.

Brought before the magistrates of the Specialized Interregional Jurisdiction (Jirs) of Marseille, competent in matters of organized crime, he is notably indicted, like six other people, for criminal association with a view to the preparation of organized gang crimes, announcement the Jirs.

Antimafia collective

The investigation, carried out by the judicial police (PJ) and the research section of the gendarmerie in "excellent collaboration" according to a connoisseur of the case, had originally started the day after the assassination of Tony Carboni, the son of Louis, in Ota (Corse-du-Sud) in August 2020.

At the time, the tone became public between the Carboni and another Corsican family, the Susini, also bereaved by the assassination in 2019 of one of his family, Maxime, an independence activist.

The Carboni denounce in a press release the "cowardly assassination" of Tony on the "sole ground that he was a member of our family".

Between the lines, they regret having been singled out in the assassination of Maxime Susini without citing his name.

The anti-mafia collective Maxime Susini then retorts to feel targeted by the declarations of the Carboni, which they liken to "death threats".

On Facebook, the committee considers itself "entitled to defend itself if the lives of its members were threatened".

The highest representatives of justice on the island then intervene publicly, calling for the avoidance of "revenge actions".

"Certainly to go and commit a crime"

Was a vendetta narrowly avoided months later with the arrest last week of the commando near Ajaccio?

"It will never be written in the proceedings, but we know that there is a special atmosphere and that they are all in connection with Louis Carboni", summarizes a source close to the investigation.

“They are known to commit misdeeds, they have equipped themselves, they have stolen vehicles, a Kalashnikov… all of this most certainly to go and commit a crime.

The criminal association is formed, ”continues this source.

“The facts are disputed,” insists Me Antoine Vinier-Orsetti who defends three of the seven indicted.

On December 11 in Ajaccio, Louis Carboni was sentenced for the 18th time to four years in prison for possession and transport of a weapon after being arrested on the island with a pistol loaded in an armored 4x4 registered in Russia.

"I want to know why my son was killed"

During his trial, the sixty-year-old, already convicted of murder, theft, concealment, carrying a weapon, drug trafficking or escape, admitted the facts, specifying that he had been given this weapon, which he "did not want" , to be able to “defend” oneself.

He was said to have been "rumored to be the next victim" after the death of his son, Tony.

“I want to know why my son was killed.

If it is in relation to me, it is as if I had armed the killers and with that, I cannot live ”, he had entrusted to the court.

He "has the will to settle things alone", then estimated Geoffrey Makan, representative of the public prosecutor.

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