INTERVIEW
This is the story of mobsters, who did not necessarily have the vocation to become one. Vendetta: the heirs of the Sea Breeze returns to the extraordinary story of a Corsican mafia gang, decimated after a series of settling of accounts in the late 2000s, but who find themselves heirs. Co-author of the book, Violette Lazard, journalist at L'Obs , presented, on Sunday on Europe 1, this investigation which will have earned her threats and intimidation.
"A conspiracy to avenge the fathers"
The story begins in 2009, when François Guazzelli, pillar of the Sea Breeze gang, is assassinated, under the fire of one or more snipers. Before him, four other gang members were killed in the space of two years. The criminal group was decimated, but soon found successors. Three of the sons of the murdered bandits indeed take up the torch from their fathers, with the common goal of taking revenge on those they hold responsible.
Among them, a rising football star, Christophe Guazzelli. After being admitted to Clairefontaine, he signed several contracts until his contract in Nantes which would have allowed him to become a professional player. If his father hadn't been murdered in the meantime. "It's very cartoonish," says Violette Lazard. "His father died murdered on a road in Corsica in November 2009 and, overnight, we no longer recognize him", she continues, evoking a descent into hell. "He has reconnected with all the other sons, two of the former founders of the Sea Breeze, and he is starting a conspiracy to avenge the fathers."
Their revenge will be matured and prepared for eight years, passing through banditry and drug trafficking. The goal ? "Finance this vendetta," explains Violette Lazard, who said that during her investigation with her co-author, Marion Galland, she had access to numerous judicial documents.
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Recorded plays through hidden microphones
The investigation also looks at the opposing clan, against whom the Sea Breeze is waging war for this vast story of revenge, but also for financial reasons, the two gangs opposing each other to have an economic and financial hold on the whole island.
Again, Violette Lazard says she had access to exceptional documents, including the sound system of two cells in which Jean-Luc Germani, "one of the most feared thugs", advises Guy Orsoni, younger but already sentenced to several repeated, giving him "lessons of thuggery, organized crime".
Infiltration of public markets, racketeering at Ajaccio casino, etc. These tapes, recorded in 2015 thanks to concealed microphones, were transcribed in the book-investigation. The defense of Jean-Luc Germani tried to obtain the suppression of these transcripts on the basis of concealment of violation of the secrecy of the instruction and invasion of the private life, but the court rejected the request, declaring that "the banning a work as it is is an exceptionally serious measure for freedom of expression. "
Regarding the case of the heirs of the Sea Breeze, Christophe Guazzelli is indicted in an open investigation for "murder in an organized gang and attempted assassination in an organized gang", in the case of the double homicide of 'Antoine Quilichini and Jean-Luc Codaccioni, murdered in December 2017 in the parking lot of Bastia-Poretta airport. He is to be tried soon. "I think it's not over," says Violette Lazard, deploring the path chosen by the sons of the Mafiae of the Sea Breeze. "There are some who choose other paths, but it's illusory to think it will stop. "