Murder Aurelie Fouquet Rédoine Faïd before the assizes – Le Figaro

VIDEO – With eight other defendants, the recidivist robber appears from Tuesday and until April 15 before the Assize Court of Paris for the murder in 2010 in Villiers-sur-Marne, the young municipal police.

the trial of the alleged murderers Aurélie Fouquet opened Tuesday before the Assize court of Paris. May 20, 2010, the young municipal police fell under the bullets of a commando robbers in Villiers-sur-Marne, near Paris. Nearly five years later, eight men whose Rédoine Faïd, 43, figure of organized crime, are in the dock facing the family of Aurélie Fouquet claiming a “moment of truth”. A ninth, missing, is tried in his absence.

• What happened five years ago?

Thursday, May 20, 2010, around 9:15, police are hunting in Créteil near Paris, a van with bullet holes. The occupants, who were planning to rob an armored car, take the shotgun and automatic weapons, launching tear gas and fire extinguishers, injured motorists on the highway. In Villiers-sur-Marne, they opened fire on a municipal police vehicle. On board, Aurélie Fouquet was fatally shot in the head, while the perpetrators fled. It will take several months for all the suspects are arrested. At the time, the death of the young woman had caused outrage in the ranks of municipal police, and strong political echo President Nicolas Sarkozy went to the funeral.

• What risk Rédoine Faïd?

These men, often overloaded bins would be to varying degrees involved in what prosecutors called “d ‘war operation. ” Considered the mastermind of the operation, Rédoine Faïd, 43, is not on trial for murder, unlike some of his co-defendants – Rabia Hideur Daouda and Baba absent Olivier Tracoulat – but for “attempting to recurrence band organized with flight or use of weapons threat. ” Nevertheless incurs life imprisonment. But he denies any involvement, “it has nothing to do with the foundation because no material implies” in the attempted armed robbery, said his lawyer Christian Saint-Palais.

• How will unfold the trial?

This trial, which opened on Tuesday in one of the largest halls of the courthouse of Paris, is to last seven weeks. The first day was dedicated to draw jurors to call witnesses and then to the statement of facts. Until April 15, attended by 20 civil parties, this case will scroll one hundred witnesses and twenty experts. As of Wednesday afternoon, the Assize Court must examine the personality of Rédoine Faïd.