A 24-year-old pruner was sentenced Friday evening by the Ajaccio assizes to eighteen years in prison for an assassination linked to a personal dispute, committed in June 2017 in Cargèse (Corse-du-Sud).

Jean-Dominique Carboni, who has always denied the facts, saw his conviction accompanied by a safety sentence of nine years.

The prosecution had required twenty years of criminal imprisonment.

On the evening of June 7, 2017, Karim Absi, 27, was shot dead in his home.

Sentenced to seven years in prison for robbery with violence, the man, wearing an electronic bracelet, lived in an apartment on the ground floor of an alley in Cargèse, a village of 1,300 inhabitants.

He spent his evening with friends, an open window adorned with a simple veil.

At 9.40 p.m., a 12 mm caliber buckshot hit him in the chest, killing him almost instantly without anyone seeing the author of the shot.

The investigation once considered the trail of organized crime before abandoning it.

Karim Absi was indeed notoriously close to Louis Carboni, sentenced since 1976 on 18 occasions for a total of fifty years in prison.

He was also close to his son Mickaël Carboni, himself sentenced twice to eight years in prison and acquitted last March for an assassination.

"No evidence," says defense

The evening of the facts, were among the guests of Karim Absi, his "childhood friend", Nina Colonna, companion of Mickaël Carboni, who brought a civil action in this case. The investigation will then lean towards a personal dispute. Jean-Dominique Carboni, Louis' nephew and Mickaël's cousin, would have been upset that Karim Absi had dealt an involuntary blow to his cousin whom he considered to be "his second mother" in April 2017. During this altercation, he threatened to the victim died, and, according to the prosecution, three weeks later, used his "hunting skills" to kill the victim before reaching his home, unseen, 140 meters from the scene of the crime.

"It was he who killed Karim Absi," said the general counsel, pointing to a "bundle of factual elements", including wiretaps showing his attempt to obtain an alibi from his girlfriend and the accusations of 'a close friend made in police custody then before the examining magistrate, before he retracted Thursday at the bar, claiming to have "lied".

"All the principles of a fair investigation have been flouted," assured Me Dominique Ferrari in defense, insisting that there was "no evidence" against his client.

Marseilles

A man shot dead at his home in Cargèse

Miscellaneous

Stéphane Colonna's straw hut, Yvan Colonna's brother, burned down in Cargèse

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