Murder
On 25 February 1994 , she was murdered by two men on a motorcycle as she joined her home by car at the mouth of a lace on the panoramic road of Mont des Oiseaux . At that time, Hyères is nicknamed "Hyères-les-Bombs" for its many attacks, fires and gangland amid speculation businessmen for control of the local economy. Part of the local political class maintains, at that time, ambivalent relationship with the environment .Yann Piat is the first woman MP killed in France and the second elected shot in twelve years, in the Var.
Track policy
Immediately, the "case Yann Piat" arouses strong feelings in France, and it requires a political origin. Suspicions are fueled by the revelation in print letters 4 and recent reports from the member concerning links between elected Republican Party and the Var mafia 5 , as well as the discovery of a letter written by Yann Piat two years ago, when she had been away from the right list for regional and in which it involves in wrongful death cases, five men whose Arreckx Maurice , Bernard Tapie and the godfather Jean-Louis Fargette shot meantime 3 .Track mafia
Then the investigation is directed towards the mafia murder, police collecting confessions killers Marco di Caro and Lucien Ferri, arrested in June 1994 , and suspecting the Sponsor as Gérard Finale the bar owner 's Macama (located on the harbor Marina Hyères ), whose ambition was to become a sponsor of the underworld of Var 1 and have seen Yann Piat an obstacle in the climb, the crediting of more weight than she had.
Controversies
However, in October 1997 , investigative journalists Rougeot André and Jean-Michel Verne revive the track of political conspiracy with Yann Piat Affair: Assassins in the heart of power , in which they claim that the member was murdered because it knew too much about the real estate business involving politicians and the general banditry Var. They cite the words of a "general", presented as a former member of the Military Intelligence Directorate , which make Francois Leotard and Jean-Claude Gaudin , under the respective nicknames of " Squid "and" Scooter "sponsors murder. They complain and initiate an action referred to remove the passages in the book considered defamatory . Unable to provide evidence of their writings, journalists are sentenced with their publisher to pay 230,000 euros of fine , and their book is withdrawn from sale 6 . In response, written Leotard For honor . A few months later, Andre Rougeot deviated from writing Canard chained 7 .According to Claude Ardid , there would have been, in addition to the strip bar The Macama , a second team, responsible for finishing the job. For him, this is explained by the fact qu'Yann Piat wanted to oppose the expansion of the airport of Toulon-Hyères well as real estate projects (construction of a marina on the double tombolo of the peninsula Isle of Giens, on land sold by the Company saline du Midi 8 ). She heard, he said, by going to the city of Hyères , end links between mafia and political environments.
Trial
On 4 May 1998 , the trial is held Gerard Finale, two buddies and murderers Yann Piat before the Court of Assizes of the Var . The presiding judge asks Lucien Ferri:"The President: How the preparation is carried out?
Ferri: There were preparatory meetings with sponsors, but I was there alone.
President: Who are the sponsors?
Ferri: I can not tell you the say.
President: If there were politicians or rogue?
Ferri: Both.
President: Were there politicians?
Ferri: Yes.
President: These policies are so powerful that you the dreaded?
Ferri: Well yes, otherwise I would tell you their names 9 . "
After six hours of deliberation, he leads the June 16 conviction of Gérard Final 10 and the drawer, Lucien Ferri, to life imprisonment , the two stooges to 15 and 13 years in prison. Lucien Ferri died in June 2013 at age 41, a devastating meningitis in a hospital in Toulouse, while he was on parole 11 .
The driver of the motorcycle, Marco Di Caro, was sentenced to twenty years imprisonment . He gets out of prison November 24, 2007. On 4 August 2008, he was arrested by a device policemen from Draguignan, reinforced by a team IFNU in the house in the center of Flayosc where he was staying since his release. Indeed, on the night of 4 to 5 January 2008, he assaulted a resident of Flayosquet an outlying district of Draguignan, at his home, hooded and armed with a knife. Suiting the action to the threat, he had hindered the victim on her bed with masking tape and searched his home, seizing money in cash ( € 300 ), his credit card and stealing his car. In October 2010, he was sentenced for the assault and 17 years of imprisonment by the Court of Assizes of the Var, penalty reduced to 15 years by the Assize Court of Appeal Bouches-du-Rhône 21 September 2011.
Tributes
A commemorative plaque was apparent where Yann Piat was murdered. It has now disappeared. In 2011, Antoine De Caunes made a film Yann Piat, a chronicle of murder , with Karin Viard in the role of the member . The association with the name of the member, however, denounced the filming, opinion criticized by Angélique Piat, daughter of Yann Piat, who had even requested the dissolution of the association felt that the name of his mother was not a "trademark" .There is a "place Yann Piat" in Bormes-les-Mimosas (Var). In February 2008, the city 's Hyères also inaugurated a "street Yann Piat" .
Sources:
- See liberation.fr. \
- Christian English, Frederic Thibaud, business unclassified , First edition 2004, p.266
- The sponsor of the murder dies at age 65 in a hospital in Toulouse during the night of Wednesday 12 to Thursday, May 13, 2010 while serving his sentence in the central Lannemezan (Hautes-Pyrénées)
- Var Morning of June 25, 2013
- "Controversy surrounds the memory of Yann Piat" , in varmatin.com , June 28, 2008.
- "Hyères: New avenue, new roundabout and Yann Piat street"\ , in varmatin.com , 18 February 2008.
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