Karim Tir, 30, was killed in June 2014 in front of a metro station in Asnières (Hauts-de-Seine), by two men on motorcycles.
The Bouches-du-Rhône Assize Court sentenced Mohamed Seghier, 45, and Juan Marti, 41, to 25 years in prison on Friday March 24. Both were found guilty of the organized gang assassination of rapper Jul’s manager, Karim Tir, in June 2014. The prosecution had requested 30 years’ imprisonment against them with a 20-year security period.
The two accused denied having taken part in the murder of Karim Tir, 30, killed in front of a metro station in Asnières (Hauts-de-Seine), near Paris, by two men on a motorcycle. After serving a five-year prison sentence for drug trafficking in Marseille, Karim Tir claimed to have turned the page by settling in the Paris region. He had become at that time the producer of Jul, whose career was beginning to blossom.
Death linked to drug trafficking
According to the prosecution, his death is part of a cycle of reprisals between members of two Marseille drug trafficking clans, the Tir, allied with the Berrebouh, and the Remadnia, associated with a team of criminals from Marignane, including Mohamed Seghier. , according to the judicial police, one of the leaders. “It’s a legal fantasy”defended Mohamed Seghier during the debates, denying being at war with the Tir. “I have no litigation and no revenge” to satisfy, he said, justifying his presence in Paris a few weeks before the assassination by his association with Sabir Titouh, alias “Titax”, a rising figure in Parisian banditry, for car thefts.
The prosecution opposed him to the surveillance of Jul’s manager operated by this team, in the company of Zakary Remadnia. A few hours after the assassination, the latter and Juan Marti left the Paris region to return to Marseilles, where Zakary Remadnia was assassinated a month later. Throughout the debates, Zakary Remadnia and Sabir Titouh (also the victim of a settling of scores in 2015) were designated as the perpetrators of the assassination of Karim Tir.
Two other people convicted
Two other defendants, prosecuted for criminal association, were also convicted. The mistress of “Titax”, who was sentenced to three years in prison with a probationary reprieve, and an accused who had provided the apartment used to house “the Marseillais”, who was sentenced to five years in prison including three and a half years with a probationary reprieve.
The Assize Court, on the other hand, acquitted Youser Titouh, brother of Sabir, against whom the Advocate General had requested eight to ten years in prison. She also acquitted two other defendants, including the companion of “Titax”, who were accused of having played the role of logisticians.