who is Tony Peillon, this crook soon to be tried for serial thefts and rapes?

who is Tony Peillon, this crook soon to be tried for serial thefts and rapes?
who is Tony Peillon, this crook soon to be tried for serial thefts and rapes?

Soon judged after complaints from several women for rape and sexual assault, Tony Peillon was best known until now for his multiple scams which would have allowed him to earn several million euros. Who is the “Rocancourt du Tarn”?

It was almost ten years after committing his first misdeeds that Tony Peillon sera tried for five rapes and one sexual assault. The multi-recidivist fraudster well known to the police has already been convicted on several occasions, namely once a year between 2014 and 2021, for acts of fraud and deception which would have earned him a total of 16.2 million euros. And even 21.2 million euros if we consider his latest scam in Ukraine! Indeed, in 2022 while the war was roaring in Eastern Europe, the young man now aged 28 ans offered weapons for sale to refugee aid associations on the border with Poland. To do this, he changed his identity and used the name of a French security company.

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Little information had leaked about him until very recently and the investigations carried out in the context of this case of rape and sexual assault brought before the Criminal Court of , which now make it possible to know who the criminal called “really is.” the Rocancourt du Tarn”… This one is born in Thailand more adopted at the age of three by a family living in Avreyon before moving to bleachin Tarn, where he spent most of his childhood. The psychologist who heard him and who is working to define his personality from the Béziers penitentiary center where he is locked up awaiting his trial (Hérault) evokes a form of irrepressible flight forward which only stopped at the moment of “his final arrest in March 2022”stipulate our colleagues from Parisian who carried out the investigation.

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An abused orphan with a taste for luxury

In the October 21 edition of the newspaper, we learned that the little boy had been welcomed into a local orphanage, “broken legs”, “where two nurses took care of 800 children”. Subsequently, surrounded by his adoptive parents, he became passionate about reading, football which he played, karate and the piano, and “dream of being a stylist”let our colleagues know. But things get tough when he arrives at high school: his adoptive parents successively divorce and his girlfriend tells him that she is pregnant, and tells him of her intentions to keep the child. In the process, it would have been “excluded by his in-laws” who would have prevented him from seeing his son born in 2014. At that moment, Tony Peillon slips.

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He immediately begins his business of fraud in the capital and pretends to be the creator of a clothing brandbrightens up his profile with sketches that are not his and sells costumes ten times more expensive than anyone who bought them. Tony Peillon then moved around a lot in order to cover his tracks between , , Saint-Nazaire then Rennes. It happens hosted by gendarmes while pretending to be one of them after taking a photo of the sweater of one of his reservist girlfriends, claiming that there are no more places in the barracks for him. Using his hosts’ means of payment, he “spends evenings in restaurants, clubs or casinos”including on the Côte d’Azur and in Monaco, and even going so far as to invite itself to the Film Festival, it is reported.

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Fake identities and drugged women

An expert whose opinion is shared by The Parisian stipulates that the criminal “attaches excessive importance to status, appearance, fashion, money or success”. This is why he made himself pass a graduated from major business schools or for a motorcycle rider from BMWwhich according to the specialist makes it a “predator” who benefits “from the social context without much consideration for others” and for personal purposes. The psychologist describes it as “demiurge”.

But, beyond “financial predations” who made him known, Tony Peillon would have physically assaulted several women he met on his way. One of them filed a complaint against him in 2018. “She met him via Facebook. One day in June of that year, she went to his home in to bring him his glasses. He consumed alcohol and cannabis. Tony suggested that he stay and sleep”according to the story she gave. Finally, after several days, she realized that she had been raped after being drugged. “He then disappears from her life, not forgetting to steal her dog”. Tamara remembers this New Year’s Eve night when she was “violently penetrated” before waking up. “The next day, he threatened to attack me if I filed a complaint”she testified. All women who say they are victims present the same profile, affected by “a feeling of inferiority” or knowing a “emotional immaturity”.

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