• On Wednesday evening, Steeve Arnoux, 24, was found guilty of the murder of Jason Maimone, killed on the evening of October 1, 2019 in the parking lot of a supermarket in Gattières, near Nice.
  • The Assize Court of Alpes-Maritimes sentenced him to thirty years' imprisonment, accompanied by a two-thirds security sentence.
  • Yannick Tournier, a 19-year-old accomplice at the time of the facts, tried at his side for having driven him by car to the meeting point agreed with the victim, was sentenced to eighteen years in prison.

He harassed his ex as if she "belonged to him", as if she was "his thing". In the face of threats and intimidation, Eva's family had even filed at least seven complaints against the young man. In vain. He had finally committed the irreparable: to shoot the new fiancé of the high school girl. Two shotgun bullets. On Wednesday evening, Steeve Arnoux, 24, was found guilty of the murder of Jason Maimone, killed on the evening of October 1, 2019 in the parking lot of a supermarket in Gattières, near Nice.

The Assize Court of Alpes-Maritimes sentenced him to thirty years' imprisonment, accompanied by a two-thirds security sentence. Yannick Tournier, a 19-year-old accomplice at the time of the facts, tried at his side for having driven him by car to the meeting point agreed with the victim, was sentenced to eighteen years in prison.

Unequivocal exchanges on Messenger

Before the tragedy, Jason Maimone had also filed a complaint for death threats and made the gendarmes read his exchanges with Steeve Arnoux. "I'm going to skin you, you've declared war buddy," he wrote on Messenger. To which Eva's new companion replied: "We've been supposed to see each other for a month, but you're running away. I hope you know how to shoot and, as I told you before, aim for the head or the heart."

The attorney general had requested only fifteen years in prison against the accomplice, but the sentence finally imposed on the main accused, "very definition of psychopath", he said during the trial, according to Nice-Matin. Steeve Arnoux had, according to him, decided that "whoever gets in his way will be his enemy".

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