Two and a half years ago, Joseph Menconi, known as José, was examined and placed under judicial control in the case of the double murder of Poretta, perpetrated on December 5, 2017. At the end of last September, this man linked for several years to grand banditry is arrested in Bastia, as part of the case of attempted murder of Guy Orsoni, committed on September 13, 2018. However, his judicial control prohibits him from going to Haute-Corse. This measure is then revoked and an order for filing ordered. José Menconi reportedly went to Bastia to catch a plane to return to his main home, according to his defense, as there were no more places to leave from Ajaccio and Figari. A week after his arrest, which resulted in his release without charge, he was arrested again in the south of France this time.
He was finally indicted for criminal association and placed in pre-trial detention in the Orsoni case, also in the hands of a judge of the specialized interregional court (Jirs) of Marseille. Concerning the revocation procedure in the Poretta case, the document was the subject of a defense appeal. The magistrate specifies that José Menconi “Incurs a criminal penalty”. The defense, represented by Me Amaury Auzou, denounces this element arguing an indictment for a criminal association, therefore for a crime.
“What has been written
is wrong “
On appeal, the investigating chamber removes this element which it qualifies “Error” and confirms the revocation of judicial review. In its judgment, the court justifies its decision by considering that the person concerned could evade justice and notes that there is a risk of “Consultation with its co-authors”. Enough to keep José Menconi in prison.
Me Amaury Auzou brushes aside these arguments: “My client has always been available to justice. He scrupulously follows his judicial control and warns the magistrate whenever necessary, such as during the confinement he spent in the south of France. As he could no longer check in at his usual police station, he made a handrail to tell the magistrate where he was. Regarding the pressures or the consultations, if he had had to do it, he would have done it during the last two years. That was not the case “. More broadly, the lawyer considers that “This revocation is judicial opportunism”. “This is a comfort deposit warrant which would quite simply allow having a double guarantee in relation to the second case in which he is indicted (the Orsoni file, editor’s note) whereas my client has absolutely nothing to do with these two cases ”, pleads Me Auzou.
During the month of October, José Menconi’s first custody in the Orsoni case hit the headlines. Several information reported a deal between José Menconi and the Corsican judicial police which has since been withdrawn from the case by the examining magistrate Anaïs Trubuilt of the Jirs of Marseille. Asked about this episode, Me Amaury Auzou warns that he will speak on the subject in a timely and accurate manner “That what has been written is false “. He thus considers that “The press gets involved in these two cases and paints a portrait opposite of what (my) client really is and that is not correct”.
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