Shooting in Milan: trappers Baby Gang and Simba La Rue convicted
They were accused with 6 other people. All charges recognised: robbery, brawl, serious injury and possession of an illegal weapon
The trappers Mohamed Lamine Saida, known as Simba La Rue, and Zaccaria Mouhib, or Baby Gang, were sentenced to 6 years and 4 months and 5 years and 2 months respectively in the trial - celebrated in Milan with an abbreviated trial - for the shooting, which occurred on the night between 2 and 3 July 2022 in Via di Tocqueville, near the heart of Milan's nightlife, in which two Senegalese people were injured.
The judges (Tremolada-Pucci-Gallina) confirmed, with higher sentences than those requested by the Prosecutor's Office, the accusatory structure of the investigation coordinated by the prosecutor Francesca Crupi and conducted by the police and carabinieri. All the disputed charges were recognised: robbery, brawl, serious injury and possession of an illegal weapon.
Also sentenced to 5 years and 8 months were Faye Ndiaga, the person who physically shot the two, Eliado Tuci, 4 years and 6 months, Pape Loum, 4 years and 5 months, Mounir Chakib, known as "Malippa", the manager of trappers, at 3 years and 8 months.
And again: 4 years and 2 months for Alassane Faye and Andrea Rusta.
For Simba, who allegedly brought the gun that evening, which was never found, the Prosecutor's Office had asked for 5 years and 8 months, while for Baby Gang 4 years and 8 months.
The sentence for the latter, 5 years and 2 months, continuously includes a definitive plea bargain for another gun that was found when he was arrested together with the others in October 2022, on the order of investigating judge Guido Salvini.
Baby Gang, 22 years old, has already been sentenced to 4 years and 10 months for first degree robbery, while Simba, 21 years old, has been sentenced to 4 years in the other parallel proceeding on a "feud" between groups of trappers.
The prosecutor in the shooting trial had highlighted the group's intent to "overwhelm" because, the magistrate said in the indictment, "they did not steal a purse from the two Senegalese because they needed money, as their contracts attest and their fees."
The defendants, defended by lawyers Niccolò Vecchioni and Jacapo Cappetta, compensated the injured, but according to the Prosecutor's Office "it was a matter of a few hundred euros, nothing compared to their fees".
However, the judges granted general mitigating circumstances for all the defendants, present in the courtroom, but who did not make statements.
(Unioneonline/lf)
