After more than nine years of investigation, judge Anaïs Trubuilt of the specialized interregional jurisdiction of Marseille, responsible for investigating the case on the assassination, on October 16, 2012, in Ajaccio, of the lawyer Antoine Sollacaro and on the attempted of assassination, the 1is September 2012, still in Ajaccio, by Charles Cervoni, on Friday, January 28, issued its indictment (OMA).
André Bacchiolelli, 54, and Jacques Santoni, 44, are accused of murder, for the first, and of complicity, for the second. Mickaël Ettori, 46, and Patrick Giovannoni, 52, are also sent back to the Assize Court of Bouches-du-Rhône, in Aix-en-Provence, for association of criminals with a view to the preparation of a crime. The first three are known for their membership in the Petit Bar gang. Jacques Santoni, severely disabled following a motorcycle accident, is suspected of being the leader of this Ajaccio criminal gang.
It was a little before 9 a.m. on this sunny morning of October 16, 2012, when, as usual, the lawyer Antoine Sollacaro arrived driving his Porsche Cayenne at the Total station on Cours Lucien-Bonaparte, in the center of Paris. ‘Ajaccio. Like every morning, he comes to buy his newspaper at the station kiosk, before going to his office, place du Diamant.
He pays no attention to the two men on the black and gray motorbike who have been following him since leaving his home, located not far from there. Hardly has he just parked, engine still on, than the BMW 1200 GS goes up to him. Full face helmet, dressed in black, the passenger gets off. He walks over to the Porshe, brandishes a handgun, and fires nine shots. Hit by several bullets in the head, Antoine Sollacaro collapses. He dies instantly.
An actor in island politics
Immediately, the rumor runs in town and in the rest of the island: “Sollacaro has been assassinated! » The emotion is intense. Tenor of the Ajaccio Bar with a high voice and strong convictions, the former baton player Antoine Sollacaro, 63, is one of the most famous lawyers in Corsica. A native of Propriano (Corse-du-Sud), where he ran in local elections in nationalist colors, he is an actor in the island’s political life.
Since the 1970s, he has been in all the major court cases. The most sensitive, too. Committed man with a strong voice, Me Since the 1970s, Sollacaro has defended militants from the Corsican National Liberation Front (FLNC) in trials that have marked the island’s history, including those of Yvan Colonna, the assassin of Prefect Erignac sentenced to perpetuity in June 2011.
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