The two accused were sentenced at first instance to twenty-five years in prison for the gang-related murder of Karim Tir in 2014.
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Even harsher sentences on appeal. Mohamed Seghier and Juan-Gino Marti were sentenced on the night of Friday 20 to Saturday 21 September by the Bouches-du-Rhône Court of Appeal to thirty years of criminal imprisonment for the organised murder of rapper Jul’s manager in 2014.
The victim, Karim Tir, was released from prison in 2012 after serving a five-year sentence for drug trafficking. He had retrained in music production, becoming manager of Jul, whose career was beginning to take off. But he was shot dead at the wheel of his vehicle by men riding a motorbike in front of a metro station on 12 June 2014 in Asnières-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine).
Both defendants fiercely denied any involvement in the assassination. “I’m a car thief, I could do a robbery but I’m not a killer”hammered during the debates Mohamed Seghier, presented by the judicial police as one of the influential members of a team of criminals from Marignane (Bouches-du-Rhône). The attorney general included this assassination in a “vendetta”, a bloody conflict between two criminal teams from Marseille involved in drug trafficking.