The investigation focuses on a group of nine young people of Egyptian origin. The three main stakeholders accuse each other.
Three and a half years after the murder of Vanesa Campos, a transsexual sex worker of Peruvian origin, the trial against three men accused ofThe crime perpetrated during a “punitive expedition” He began Tuesday in Paris in a tense atmosphere.
Vanesa Campos, a 36-year-old trans prostitute, passed away from shot in the chest on the night of August 16-17, 2018 in the Boulogne forest, one of the lungs of the French capital known for the presence of sex workers.
His murder revealed the violence suffered by prostitutes, but the defense requested this Tuesday avoid becoming a “symbolic” judgment. “The sex of the victim, his gender, does not influence what happened,” said attorney Antoine Aussedat.
The investigation quickly focused on a group of young people of Egyptian origin, who took advantage of sexual services to rob workers and their clients. Total, nine men are tried.
The three main defendants, tried for “murder in an organized gang”, they deny being responsible for the crime of the Peruvian in an irregular situation in France and accuse each other.
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The night of cars, a dozen young people gathered in the Boulogne forest to carry out, according to the accusation, a “punitive expedition”, armed with tear gas canisters, a knife and an electric pistol.
These also had a firearm stolen a week before of a policeman’s vehicle, when he was with a prostitute. One of the shots fired fatally wounded Vanesa Campos.
Her companions they found her naked and dying near the place where he practiced, in an isolated area of the forest, located near a road and without lighting.
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The defendants point to Mahmoud Kadri, 24, as the perpetrator of the fatal shot, but he denies it and in turn accuses Karim Ibrahim, 29, whom witnesses identify as the leader of the group.
The third of the main defendants Aymen Dib, 25 years old, is credited with having stabbed the victim.
Five more men, aged 23 to 27, are charged for their participation in the events. A ninth defendant, aged 34, appears for the theft of the policeman’s weapon.
How was the trial lived?
The first day of the trial was tense. The president of the court expelled one of the defendants and asked the rest to stop combing their combs and giving “devastating glances” to other defendants or to civil parties.
Former companions or friends of the victim ended leaving the room after a defendant did “a sign of slaughter towards them”, Denounced their lawyer, Chirine Heydari.
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The mother and sister of Vanesa Campos, residents in Peru, were also constituted as civil parties, as well as six former companions and friends of the victim and the bodyguards they hired then, “Takaré”.
This trial will reveal the truth, at least that is the hope of Vanesa Campos’ family and friends.
Heydari, stating that the mother and sister were unable to travel to France.
According to Heydari, this case that caused a strong commotion “will be the occasion for remember that the working conditions of the prostitutes in the Boulogne forest “did not improve at all three and a half years after this murder.”
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The association for the defense of trans people Acceptess-T, which the defense asks not to recognize a civil party, blames the 2016 law that punishes the clients of prostitutes, since it forces them to hide from the police and expose yourself to further attacks.
The trial of the murder of Vanesa Campos, who according to the French press would have undergone a sex change operation in Argentina, comes 10 months after the sentence to 8 years A man’s prison sentence for raping Cristina T, a Peruvian transgender prostitute.
Jessyca Sarmiento, another trans compatriot of Vanesa and Cristina who also practiced prostitution in the Boulogne forest, died hit by a vehicle in February 2020. According to witnesses, the act was intentional.
The judgment in the process and is expected Vanesa CamposJanuary 27. (I)
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