Anselmini back to prison for the kidnapping aborted Fabrice Fiorèse – The Point

The former professional footballer Ghislain Anselmini back to prison. He was sentenced to five years closes Tuesday in the case of the abduction aborted his former teammate Fabrice Fiorèse in 2012. The Assize Court of Savoy recognized flight guilty complicity with weapon and participation in an association of malefactors. The former defender Guingamp and Lyon, 45 years old and has already spent 19 months in custody, was imprisoned after the hearing.

The court also imposed a sentence of 10 years imprisonment against two kidnappers Goussairi Mohamed, 31, and Mohamed Salhi, 29. Both offenders Lyon had gone, armed with a shotgun and a knife in the villa Fiorèse in Salins-les-Thermes (Savoy), September 28, 2012, in order to steal a large sum cash, after an under-the-table of a real estate transaction. The flight had degenerated into kidnapping, thieves not finding the sum (500 000 euros) that had indicated their Ghislain Anselmini.

Difference between the sponsor and implementers

“The penalties are a bit special,” responded Mr. Michel Jugnet, lawyer spouse Fiorèse, believing that there was “too much gap” between the penalty Ghislain Anselmini and those of his two accomplices. “If Mr. Anselmini had not been there to do their dangled everything and anything, they would not have found before a criminal court,” said the lawyer. The verdict of the criminal court “seems to me to correspond to the role that was one of my client,” replied the lawyer Ghislain Anselmini, Jean-François Bar.

However, “we can not be satisfied with a decision that sends your client in detention, “added Mr. Barre, who do not intend to appeal. The court decided to “make the difference between the sponsor and the performers,” according to Mr. Jugnet. A distinction that had refused the Advocate General, which had required ten years’ imprisonment against three main accused.

Between 50 and 00 500 euros for under-the-table

“Without Mr. Anselmini it nothing would have happened, no information provided to anyone, no torque Fiorèse aggression”, had then said Bernard Beffy, evoking the “unhealthy relationship with money”, ” hypocrisy “and the” cynicism “of Ghislain Anselmini. Radwan El Maryouch, accused of playing an intermediary role between Messrs. Anselmini and Goussairi, he has been sentenced to one year suspended sentence. As for Riad Aznag, which was supposed to bring the spoils in Lyon, he was acquitted in accordance with the pleadings of his lawyer and husband Fiorèse council.

The statement did not identify the third kidnapper Fabrice Fiorèse, who was then absent from the box. Former PSG striker, 40, had the nerve of a cut finger and had been playing with a shotgun during the attack. He had managed to escape by breaking the window of his car in favor of a traffic jam. The trial did not determine if the under-the-table was much coveted 500 000 euros, as promised Ghislain Anselmini, or only 50,000 euros as maintained his former teammate.

The relationship between Ghislain Anselmini and Fabrice Fiorèse wife have occupied much of the debate. Indeed, it is through the latter, with whom he exchanged more than 90 text messages a day at the relevant time, that Ghislain Anselmini had been informed of the payment of a large sum of cash to spouses Fiorèse. Aurélie Fiorèse came not testify at trial. “He used her to steal both. It was more than manipulated “, said her husband at the helm. “This is really a big, big betrayal,” he added, in his old friend’s address.