Veyrac affair: the amazing casting of alleged kidnappers

Kidnapped in Nice in October 2016, the millionaire Jacqueline Veyrac, then aged 76, had been found healthy and saved, tied up in a van.From Monday January 4 to January 29, the accused will have to answer their actions to the owner of the gourmet restaurant "La Réserve" and the "Grand Hotel" in Cannes, which, in 2013, had already been the victim of a first attempt asremoval.

In total, fourteen people were returned to the Assize Court of the Alpes-Maritimes for having played a role in the abduction of the businesswoman, to various degrees of involvement: the gang has organized with,one side, the thinking heads, and on the other, the performers.The main accused face life imprisonment, for kidnapping and sequestration committed in an organized gang.Overview of the Ravisseurs profiles.

To read as a incredible kidnapping in front of the Assises de Nice

It is the supposed brain of the band.On the first day of the trial on Monday, January 4, he presented himself as "retired", reports Nice-Matin: "Before, I was a restaurateur.I am of Italian nationality, originally from the province of Turin, "he said.Born in Salassa, a small village north of Turin, he tries to break into politics, plans to build a casino, then finally decides to move to Nice, where he has been installed for 30 years.

With his companion, Finnish chef Jouni Törmänen, he moved to "L'Atelier du Taste", a very popular Nice address.Spotted by Jacqueline Veyrac, the couple agrees to take over from their restaurant "La Reserve" in 2007.But the collaboration runs short: plunging the establishment in an abyssal ruin, the Italian is ousted from the restaurant of Veyrac for its poor financial management in 2009.Looking for new projects, in 2016 he plans to buy the restaurant "Coco Beach", located opposite "La Réserve", but, lack of funds, the sale was about to be canceled.

Since her incarceration, Serena has multiplied requests for release, fiercely denying any involvement in the kidnapping of Jacqueline Veyrac.However, all the other accused point the finger at.Regularly invoking his fragile health, he did not fail to recall it during his trial, reports France Inter: "I have diabetes, I have one lung less [withdrawn from cancer, editor's note],I was installed a defibrillator.But despite everything, I have always been in prison for 4 years! ”.In Italy, Serena would already be known to the authorities for scams.At the end of the Veyrac trial, Guiseppe Serena faces perpetuity.

British nationality, Philip Dutton's journey is most incredible.Former soldier of British special forces, he traveled to the four corners of the world and ensures that he had fought in Iraq, Afghanistan and Bosnia.However, during the first day of the trial, he presented himself as "worker in the building".He also designated himself as the "operational chief" of the removal project.Long homeless on the island of Jersey, during the facts, he was a night watchman on a beach in Nice.

Philip Dutton admitted that he had called the victim's son with his mother's phone to claim a ransom.He would also have asked for 5 million euros by sending an SMS, but the message never left.

This former soldier is also prosecuted for the 2013 kidnapping attempt on Jacqueline Veyrac.Like Sarana, Dutton risks perpetuity.Contacted by Le Figaro, the lawyer for Giuseppe Serena Me Corentin Delobel also affirms that Dutton would also have already been sentenced by British justice to 8 years in prison for rape.

Seventy -year -old Piedmontese and old friend "40 years" from Serena, Enrico Fontanella was a long time butterfly.It was he who would have presented most of the accused in Serena.

Giuseppe Serena hoped that Rico Fontanella finds in Jersey, where the latter lives, "an investment company that can be interested" by the resumption of the hotel-restaurant "The Iron Mask", on an island in front of Cannes, reports AFP.On the island, Fontanella, guardian of a chapel, will only meet Dutton: according to the Parisian, the two accomplices met at the Sanctuary House, a place of accommodation for the most disadvantaged.

Absent from his trial for health problems, according to her lawyer, Enrico Fontanella is currently in a rolling chair and should follow, three days a week, dialysis.He must also undergo a surgical operation in mid-January.Due to his state of health, his case was therefore disjointed.

According to the accusation, the Serena-Dutton-Fontanella trio would have already tried the first time to remove Jacqueline Veyrac in 2013.

Nicknamed "Tintin", Luc Goursolas had several caps.Initially a photographer of various facts for Nice-Matin according to Le Parisien, he also worked for firefighters before becoming Paparazzi in Nice then private detective.Facing financial difficulties, contacted by Philip Dutton, he would have agreed to pose under the personal car of Jacqueline Veyrac of GPS tags connected to his phone.

To read a messes Mysterious Abduction of the discreet heiress of the Grand Hôtel de Cannes

He is one of the four Tunisians recruited from the popular district of Moulins.Without profession and nicknamed by the other members of the gang "Ali the blue eyes", the latter admitted that he had come to check for a third party if the vehicle was still on site.

Young Italian hired to expand the ranks of the shock team, Amedeo Urso follows the traces of his Enrico Fontanella mentor.But it is quickly dismissed from key positions."Urso remains a mystery for the moment, his role in this case is very vague, it is very elusive, but it would seem that it is very linked to Fontanella and Dutton, it is clearly part of this trio which has every interest inPresent Serena as the main culprit, ”comments with Figaro Me Corentin Delobel.

He is part of the band in the Moulins district and, from a car accident, he has been nailed to a wheelchair.Saying electrician, he would be nicknamed "Hindu", "because of the color of his skin", explains to Le Figaro Me Delobel.He would have served as an intermediary by presenting the leader of the band, Ali Gueffaz, in Serena.He was approached, according to Le Parisien, by Fontanella while the latter was at the Heliomarin center in Vallauris after being amputate the left leg.He denies any involvement.Serena, for her part, claims to have contacted Bousbia to offer her to buy her shares from the Nice Coffee Bar Le "Per Lei", affirms his lawyer with Figaro.

Building painter, he is accused, like his three other colleagues in the Moulins district, of having committed the removal.Having lost his two front teeth, he is nicknamed "without tooth" by his two other acolytes.

Fourth member of the gang of the Moulins district, like the other performers, who nicknamed him "Longo", he compared before the courts for "arrest, kidnapping, sequestration or arbitrary hostage to obtain the execution of an order or'A condition, committed in an organized gang ».

Of the fourteen people tried for the kidnapping of Jacqueline Veyrac, five young Chechens, aged 21 to 23, were also sent back to the assizes: initially recruited to commit the kidnapping and ensure sequestration, they ultimately did not commitabduction, but their DNA footprints remained on the van.Achraf M'hamdi, Kabil Raouafi, Turpal Aidamirov, Ilias Khamzatovitch Gazgueriev and Khalid will therefore appear free before the judge for non-denunciation of crime.

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