Already convicted in November 2024 for a refusal to comply followed by a devastating pileup in the streets of Mandelieu, Jonathan Childz, a 40-year-old Albigensian, appeared again last Thursday before the Grasse judicial court presided over by Stéphane Bourdeau.
This time, he is accused of acts prior to this urban gymkhana which ended in the wall of a condominium and with his escape on foot, abandoning the vehicle. We will find his trace and apprehend him in the Tarn where he usually resides.
These traffic offenses earned him a first sentence of two years in prison, one of which was suspended.
Suffering from a severe addiction to cocaine and crack, this former construction entrepreneur, then at the head of substantial assets, squandered everything to consume narcotics.
On the night of September 13 to 14, 2024, he entered a home in a residential area of Antibes in search of a safe.
The 72-year-old owner, who lives alone in this two-story house, returns around 6:30 p.m. after walking her dog. She comes face to face with the intruder who is wearing a surgical mask and screams in fear.
In her hearing she reports: “He grabbed me, spun me around, gagged me with a scarf in my mouth, tied my hands and feet with duct tape. Then he dragged me across the floor.”
Questioned by the magistrate about his version of the facts, the defendant admitted “having found himself in a neighboring villa, uninhabited and under construction, where he noticed several days during the habits of this lady who walked her dog at the end of the day. I took advantage of her absence to enter her house through a door at the back remained open But she surprised me, I didn't expect her to come back so soon.
He gets his dose of drugs delivered
This tête-à-tête will last all night, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 a.m., the time of his hasty departure. The attacker constantly asks his victim for the combination to the safe or the key to open it.
-He will work to try to overcome the imposing object located in an office on the first floor. He will go so far as to drag him through the house to the garage where he will be found at the foot of his car, ransacking the home in the process, from the first floor to the ground floor.
To culminate in this nightmarish night, he has his drug dose delivered to him by his dealer, on the steps of the house!
To the civil party Me Rachel Lhote Lemar describes “the strong personality of the victim who has already experienced a hostage situation at her workplace. She even feigned discomfort, without having any effect on her attacker.”
For the public prosecutor, we can speak of a real sequestration in a closed session which lasted 14 hours. He requires 5 years in prison with continued detention.
“It’s okay, you can’t open it, leave now!”, This is how the lady who finally frees herself from her bonds will get rid of her tormentor.
DNA traces will help identify him.
In the interests of his client, President Michel Farraud recognizes that “the victim was very frightened but quickly understood that he was not dangerous. She confirmed this by declaring: 'he was not violent with me. This man was overwhelmed by the success of his business, then fell into the abyss of drugs.”
Jonathan Childz will be sentenced to 2 years in prison with continued detention, judicial confusion of sentences rejected, he will have to compensate his victim (medical expertise requested).
