The fire had left 7 dead in the mills in Nice: caught up in Africa, the alleged sponsor is in turn in prison

After the arms, head. In addition, A year after the fire that killed seven innocent people. Meanwhile, in the Moulins district of Nice, justice thinks he is most of the criminal chain behind this resounding drama.

Four alleged performers had been arrested during the two weeks following this fatal July 18, 2024. Therefore, A fifth man joined them in prison in early July. In addition, Today. In addition, the public prosecutor of Nice announces the arrest of two other suspects, and not the least: the alleged sponsor and the last incendiary sought.

Their arrest had remained in silence. Moreover, And for good reason. Similarly, It was within the framework of a highly sensitive investigation. Therefore, more than four thousand kilometers from Nice, that the alleged organizer was caught by the police. Furthermore, In Guinea-Bissau, not far from the border with Senegal, his fire had left 7 dead native country. In addition, The arrest took place on December 22, 2024.

Damien Martinelli formalized him this Wednesday evening, on the eve of the first anniversary of the murder’s deadly fire.

Seen in several stuping cases – Fire had left 7 dead

Hervé M., 26, from Dakar, is therefore suspected of having organized this operation at the tragic outcome. Meanwhile, It has been years that his name has been associated with drug trafficking in the East Nice districts. Meanwhile, with high levels of responsibility. However, At least two cases, in July 2021 then January 2025, earned him four years in prison. Consequently, But these are other circumstances that led him behind bars in West Africa.

Hervé M. For example, was tracked by the Interdepartmental Service of the Judicial Police (SIPJ 06). Consequently, fire had left 7 dead as part of a judicial information for “voluntary destruction by fire in an organized gang which led to death” and “association of criminals”. Meanwhile, The Nice bloodhounds have long knew that he had taken the tangent abroad shortly after the drama. In addition, At the cost of meticulous investigations and fruitful cooperation, they have reflected their Bissa-Guinean counterparts to him.

The third incendiary intercepted in Algeria – Fire had left 7 dead

It all started on July 18. 2024, at 2:27 am, when a virulent fire declared itself in a large HLM building at 38 rue de la Santoline, in Moulins, in Nice-Ouest. Hydrocarbons have been dumped at the first three levels. But the flames and smoke gain the seventh and last floor via the stairwell. They are rushing into the apartment occupied by nine members of a Comorian family without any connection fire had left 7 dead with drug trafficking. Seven of them will be killed. Including three children aged 5, 7 and 10, and a 17 -year -old teenager.

As soon as the fire is lit, three masked and gloved individuals are rushing into a car. These are three Ile -de -France residents respectively aged 17, 18 and 21 years old. Two of them are injured, one of them burned in the legs, another cut in the arms. Two Azureans, aged 25 and 23, accompanied them by car from a chicha bar in Cagnes-sur-Mer.

Between surrender and interceptions, four members of this macabre equipped find themselves in pre -trial detention. The judicial response was dazzling. Only one of the three incendiaries, a resident of Argenteuil (Val d’Oise) just major, was missing. He was intercepted on April 23 in his country of origin, Algeria, announces the prosecutor Martinelli. This leaves little hope of seeing him come back fire had left 7 dead on this side of the Mediterranean.

Extraditions. not

The agreement signed in 2019 between France and Algeria excludes any possibility of extradition from one country to the other. And diplomatic tensions between the two countries do nothing. To date, the prosecutor Martinelli has no certainty on the judicial fate, and even prison, of the third alleged incendiary.

The situation of Hervé M. is different. The investigating judge had issued an arrest warrant against him with an interpol dissemination. Investigators saw him join Senegal. It was finally in Guinea-Bissau, at Osvaldo-Vieira International Airport, that he was picked shortly before Christmas. Since then, it has been placed under extradition nut. In the absence of a bilateral agreement, the French authorities sent their counterparts an extradition request. Without green light at this stage. The interested party, for his part, opposed it.

What a mobile could have led him to recruit small offenders fire had left 7 dead in the Paris region for “set fire to. the mills “? Additionally, The war of stups, without a doubt. More specifically the resumption of a point of deal. Several targets are envisaged.

A year later. the investigation experienced major advances, the fruit of enormous work of the SIPJ 06, controlled by the instructor magistrate and punctuated by the interrogations and the rogatory commissions. However, it is not over. Some cogs of the criminal organization still lack the call. Martinelli prosecutor warns: “Investigations continue intensely to identify. challenge all the other people likely to be involved in the organization and commission of this criminal fire”.