Four years later, the verdict is finally known. The Haute-Garonne Assize Court on Friday sentenced Kuevi Koudoyor, 31, to 23 years in prison for the murder of Christopher Aurier, the brother of footballer Serge Aurier, report our colleagues at France Blue et La Dépêche du Midi.
The events took place on July 13, 2020 in front of a night establishment in Toulouse. Kuevi Koudoyor himself presented himself at the police station the day after the murder, thus recognizing the assassination of Christopher Aurier. The brother of the former Paris Saint-Germain player was shot dead. The murder weapon was never found by investigators.
Before investigators, the accused confessed to having committed the act following a romantic dispute. “They had in common a young girl that each of them had had as a girlfriend, in turn. She was Christopher’s girlfriend before being that of the accused,” the lawyer for the Aurier family, Me Aimé Diaka, told our colleagues at France Bleu Occitanie.
A family “broken forever”
Serge Aurier, who played for Toulouse Football Club and PSG in particular, before becoming a defender at the Istanbul club Galatasaray, was a civil party in this trial, alongside his mother and stepfather. Absent at the trial, he spoke in a letter read by his lawyer Romain Vanni.
“I didn’t want to distract from what’s essential. Christopher’s life was cut short by an assassin. I am a man whose family has been broken forever,” wrote Serge Aurier, according to our colleagues at La Dépêche du Midi.
