In a march in tribute to Julie Douib in Vaires-sur-Marne, a woman holds a portrait of the young woman killed by her ex-companion on March 3, 2019. – Lucas BARIOULET / AFP
Indicted for destruction of evidence, the brother-in-law of the man tried in Bastia for the assassination of his ex-partner Julie Douib in 2019 in Corsica denied having seen him the day before with a weapon.
The children of Julie Douib and her ex-companion, Bruno Garcia-Cruciani, had indicated during the investigation to have seen their father “show their uncle Christophe” the pistol with silencer, the day before the events, in the paternal garden in Ile Rousse (Haute-Corse), recalled their lawyer.
“I did not see a weapon”
“I didn’t see a weapon. I did not see him shoot with the weapon “, repeated several times Christophe Colin, specifying, paradoxically, not” to question the declarations of the children “.
He explained that he feared that Bruno Garcia-Cruciani would come “to hands”, with the gym teacher who had a relationship with Julie Douib, the accused having explained to him that this adventure of his ex-partner put him “ angry “. “I told him: ‘Don’t play the fool, there are women, you had custody of your children, that’s the most important” “, he said at the bar, adding that the accused was “closed” and that it was someone who “did not speak” but that he did not know him well. “I never imagined that”, he assured the Assize Court.