Three and a half years after the murder of Vanesa Campos, a transgender sex worker killed during a “punitive expedition” in the Bois de Boulogne, nine men will stand trial in the Paris jury court from Tuesday, three of them for the crime.
The investigation soon focused on a group of young men of Egyptian origin who took the opportunity to rob sex workers and their clients, which caused tensions. During the trial, Vanesa Campos’ former colleagues also reported threats and sexual violence, including rape, and a “climate of terror” created by the gang of robbers who had been terrorising in the forest, a stronghold of prostitution in Paris, for several years.
(…) Mahmoud Kadri, 24, is considered by the prosecution to be the mastermind of the fatal shooting of Vanesa Campos. Karim Ibrahim, 29, and Aymen Dib, 25, are also on trial for ” intended murder by a gang “. The former is suspected of attacking the victim with a baton and the latter is suspected of stabbing the victim. “Karim Ibrahim’s lawyers, Julien Fresnault and Fares Aidel, said: “This is not a collective punitive action against Vanesa Campos.