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Julien Van Caeyseele
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Nov. 23, 2024 at 9:56 a.m.
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“It is today that the trial of Gang de Fontainebleau…” It is with this sentence that the film’s trailer begins Tigers & Hyenasby Jérémy Guez (A French affair, B.R.I.etc.) released this Friday November 22, 2024 on Prime Video. For his new thriller, the director relies on an impressive cast with Sofiane Zermani, Géraldine Nakache and Vincent Perez. Coincidence of the scenario or inspiration from a news item from Seine-et-Marne? The director sets his plot on the sidelines of the trial of this Fontainebleau gang. A name that could recall the violent heist that occurred in June 2002 at the former Fontainebleau auction house… which the press nicknamed Fontainebleau Gang…
A Prime Video thriller inspired by a news story in Fontainebleau?
That day, a car reversed into the dead end. Three individuals heavily armed neutralize around ten people in the sales room and offices. One of the criminals even molested a security agent butt shots…
The synopsis of the film Tigers and Hyenas
Returning from Spain, Malik, a young trafficker, learns that his father-in-law, a repeat robber, has just been arrested with accomplices. After the trial opened, the lawyer for one of the defendants proposed a pact to Malik: accept a mysterious and dangerous heist in exchange for the freedom of his father-in-law and that of his client. Out of loyalty to the man who once saved his life, Malik ends up accepting, joining forces with a team of robbers: all former organized thugs who will come together for a final heist…
While employees and customers were on the ground, the individuals broke the windows and took almost all of the jewelry, which was supposed to be sold the next day. While fleeing, one of the robbers will shoot several gunshots towards a police officer, without reaching him. They even stole a couple's car, in Moret-sur-Loing, before disappearing into the wild, in Jutigny.
“Everyone was very marked”
“I was not present that day, but I arrived very quickly,” remembers Jean-Pierre Osenat, the auctioneer. The staff was very impressed: I hope it was the first and last time…” One psychological cell had also been opened. If he was not aware of the film's release, Jean-Pierre Osenat now jokes about it:
“I was not asked to play my own role… But these robbers had no links with Fontainebleau, so I am surprised by the name of the Fontainebleau gang. »
In the wake of the real heist, the police follow the trail of the criminals, notably highlighting trafficking in stolen vehicles. Of Pontault-Combault, to Combs-la-Ville via Longuevillefour people will be arrested for complicity or receiving stolen property.
In June 2006, four accused – “supposed to be more or less involved in the organization of the robbery”, wrote the journalist at the time. The Republic of Seine-et-Marne – appear before the assizes. If he has always maintained his innocence, one of the accused will receive 8 years in prison; his companion will be acquitted.
Another, accused of receiving stolen goods, was sentenced to one year and the last to a one-year suspended prison sentence. “None of the three convicts directly participated in the attack,” continued the journalist. According to reports, the gangsters were never found. »
“One of the heists of the century”
In her requisitions, the attorney general praised “the composure of the police officer who protected passers-by on this busy square, facing the entrance to the castle. » For his part, the lawyer for one of the accused pointed out “the many gray areas of the case…”
Starting with the trace of 530 jewels stolen. At the time of the events, the case was even considered “one of the heists of the century” with numerous services seized such as the central office for the repression of banditry, the judicial police of Versailles and its branch in Melun. “The investigation will even be lost to Corsicabut ultimately, we will find neither the loot nor the main culprits,” concludes the journalist.
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