Europe 1 with AFP 12:38 p.m., September 24, 2022

Guy Orsoni, son of former Corsican nationalist leader Alain Orsoni, imprisoned as part of the investigation into the murder of a pensioner in 2018, was released Thursday by the Aix-en-Provence investigation chamber. in Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône), we learned on Saturday from a judicial source.

Guy Orsoni was released with another protagonist of this affair, Anto Simonu Moretti, the two men having no other title of detention in other files, specified the general prosecutor's office confirming information from France3 Corse.

Ban on traveling to Corsica and carrying a weapon

Guy Orsoni, 38, was placed under judicial control with the prohibition to go to Corsica, in the Bouches-du-Rhône and to leave the metropolitan territory.

It is also forbidden to carry a weapon and to meet all the other people also indicted in this case.

The investigating chamber granted a request for release made by the defense of Guy Orsoni who had already made several in the past without success.

The trail of advanced "misunderstanding"

On August 23, 2018 around 6:00 a.m., Jean Livrelli, a pensioner completely unknown to the police services, was joining his team of beaters for a hunting party when he had been killed by several shots on the road to Val d'Ese, in the below the village of Bastelica (Corse-du-Sud) in an "ambush" tense "by at least two men", had indicated to AFP Eric Bouillard, the public prosecutor in Ajaccio at the time of the facts.

Very quickly, the track of "the mistake" had been put forward by the prosecutor: the retiree was killed by mistake, in place of someone else.

A total of nine people have been charged in this case.

Only one remains detained, currently appealing an extension of detention, said the general prosecutor's office.

Guy Orsoni was sentenced in February 2021 to four years in prison

Presented by the police as "a prominent figure in Corsican banditry", Guy Orsoni was sentenced in February 2021 to four years in prison for "criminal association for the issuance of false administrative documents".

But the man had already served this sentence in pre-trial detention before appearing for this case which mainly related to two murders in an organized gang committed in Corsica in 2009 for which he was however acquitted.

Guy Orsoni is also indicted for "criminal conspiracy to commit a crime" and placed under judicial supervision in another case in which an alleged member of the Petit Bar criminal gang, Pascal Porri, was allegedly targeted in 2018.