Thierry Fornasari, a figure of organized crime, was shot dead in the Var
By La Provence (with AFP) - March 09, 2019 at 10:26

Thierry Fornasari, 44 years old, known figure of the great banditism Riviera, on the run since 2017, was found shot dead on the commune of Tanneron (Var), one knew Saturday of judicial source.

The discovery of the body in a vehicle goes back to the end of February, and the victim could be formally identified, said this source, confirming information from Var-Matin and France Bleu. The prosecutor's office of Draguignan (Var) was divested, given the personality of the victim, in favor of the Specialized Interregional Jurisdiction (JIRS) of Marseille.

In 2014, Thierry Fornasari, after being extradited from Spain, was sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment for drug trafficking by the Criminal Court of Grasse, which had then confirmed a default sentence handed down ten years earlier. By the end of 2017, he had not returned to his cell after an exit permit.

This Cannois has a heavy history of robber and drug dealer. Initiated to robberies at 17 by his father Robert, he was part of a gang that robbed 19 banks. In February 1999, at the age of 24, he had been sentenced for the first time for drug trafficking from Spain to France.

In 2001, Thierry Fornasari moved to Marbella (Spain). Associated with an accomplice in the suburbs of Cannes, he allegedly organized the importation into France of 7 tons of cannabis resin, between July 2002 and November 2003. It was for this traffic that he was sentenced, in his absence, to 15 years in prison in 2004.

This first run ended in July 2007 when he was arrested by Spanish police on the Costa del Sol in another drug trafficking case involving kidnapping.

He was then sentenced to 7 years in prison. His sentence served in Spain he had been extradited to France. He is the nephew of Emile Fornasari, a jeweler and figurehead of banditry, who had distinguished himself in 2001 by escaping by helicopter from the prison of Draguignan with two other prisoners and who had been sentenced to life in 2017 for to have ordered the assassination of a school guard in Antibes.

The name of Thierry Fornasari had also appeared in this file which had seen the life sentence of Michel Lambin, aka the "shepherd of Caussols", to whom the accusation had attributed the assassination of the school warden.

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