PJ Corsica relinquishes Guy Orsoni case after suspicion of leaks

Guy Orsoni escaped an assassination attempt in September 2018 in Ajaccio.

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A snub for the Corsican PJ.

The investigation into the attempted assassination of Guy Orsoni was withdrawn from the Corsican judicial police after suspicion of leaks, we learned Wednesday from corroborating sources.

The research section of the Isle of Beauty gendarmerie recovered this file, several sources told AFP, confirming information from

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Monday, September 18, a vast operation of arrests and searches had taken place in Ajaccio, carried out by the judicial police supported by the Raid, the elite body of the national police, on rogatory commission from a judge of the specialized interregional jurisdiction from Marseille (Jirs).

The alleged indicted leader

If the alleged leader of the “Petit Bar” gang, Jacques Santoni, 42 years old and quadriplegic, was arrested at his home and indicted in this affair with three other people, three of his lieutenants were not at hand. their home at the time of the net and are still wanted this Wednesday.

"The investigating judge decided to relinquish the judicial police," said a source familiar with the case, recalling that this was not the first time that "leaks" were suspected in investigations into organized crime carried out by the island judicial police.

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