Christopher Aouni, presented as a figure of Marseille narcobanditry and indicted in five murder cases, has been on trial since Thursday for a first settling of accounts committed in 2018 in a poor district of the second city of France.
Light shirt under a suit jacket, glasses and three-day beard, Christopher Aouni, nicknamed “Chico”, declared “to maintain his position” at the opening of his trial before the Assize Court of Bouches-du-Rhône, along with two other defendants.
Trial until February 3
“He is combative: he is not in the idea of denying but of demonstrating that he is not the author of the shot”, explained one of his lawyers, Me Amar Bouaou, from the Paris bar. , which intends to rely in particular on “a tedious work of telephony” to try to prove it.
A 37-year-old Vitrollais, Chistopher Aouni presents himself as a sports educator, acknowledging having engaged in car trafficking and with already more than 15 mentions on his record, in particular for aggravated theft. But the ongoing investigations and this trial draw a profile of a completely different magnitude, Christophe Aouni being under the scope of five warrants of committal in criminal cases, and in particular in the investigation relating to a double execution in the parking lot of a shopping center in 2016 in Marseille or the death of the drug trafficker “Ronaldo”, in March 2020 in Garges-lès-Gonesse, in Val-d’Oise. The trial is due to last until February 3.