Jacques Mariani convicted on appeal for corrupting a prison guard

Mariani is accused of paying 15,000 euros to a prison guard against several phones, 3G keys and alcohol.

He is considered the heir of the criminal band La Brise de Mer. He was sentenced by the Criminal Court of Marseille on March 22, 2017, to two years in prison, one of which suspended for having paid 15,000 euros to a guard of the central house of Saint-Maur (Indre) in exchange for the delivery in his cell of several mobile phones, two 3G keys and about thirty bottles of alcohol transferred into bottles of mineral water.

But on 18 September, the Advocate General had called for a worsening of the sentence by describing Jacques Mariani as "a guy with strong charisma and important authority". Also, the Court of Appeal of Aix-en-Provence has increased this sentence on Tuesday, sentencing him to four years in prison.

In its judgment, the Court of Appeal stated that the targeted public servant, "identified as particularly fragile", had been the target of "a figure of organized crime whose influence in prison was emphasized". This new sentence pushes the final sentence of Jacques Mariani, originally scheduled for August 29, 2023.

Currently incarcerated in Les Baumettes, Jacques Mariani, 52, has already spent 35 years behind bars. He was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment for the murder of a young nationalist in 2001 in Bastia.