he committed jewelry thefts “with a wire” from store windows

A jewelry thief was sentenced in immediate appearance to twenty months in prison by the Nantes criminal court on Tuesday January 7, 2025 for having notably stolen jewelry on two occasions “with a wire” from the windows of the Auchan shopping center in Trignac (Loire-Atlantique) in June and July 2024. He was kept in detention following the hearing and, upon his release from prison, this 34-year-old Georgian will be prohibited from returning to the territory. French for the next three years, de facto undermining its “hazelnut import-export project with the help of a rugby player from Clermont”…

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Booty in an umbrella

This man, “well known to the Nantes police services” according to the president of the Nantes criminal court, had in fact acted in the same way against other jewelry sellers in the department, notably at Happy Cash in Ancenis-Saint-Géréon. on June 8, 2024 or in the gallery of the Leclerc d'Orvault shopping center on June 10, 2024: he stood “next to the window”, slid his wire into a gap and hid his loot “in an umbrella”, explained the public prosecutor during her requisitions.

But he was “easily identifiable” on the video surveillance images and was thus arrested “on a search warrant” on October 30, 2024 while he was “in Charente”.

The Georgian had in fact gone there “to meet buyers” as part of a “hazelnut import-export” project with “a rugby player in Clermont” who is providing him with “help”, he said. he explained this Tuesday, January 7, 2025 to the Nantes judges.

This “dream” seems “still achievable” to him despite his criminal record, he remains convinced.

On an administrative level, this former heroin addict arrived in France in 2006 “to join his mother” but was unable to renew his residence permit due to a first incarceration in 2019.

On the criminal level, he was sentenced to “twice three years in prison,” detailed the president of the Nantes criminal court.

None of the jewelry stores nor any of their insurers had filed a civil claim to receive damages because everyone knows that the defendant is “insolvent,” continued the public prosecutor.

“Disconcerting” personality

The “damage” is however “very real” since the necklace stolen from Happy Cash in Ancenis was sold for “€294” and the loot amassed during the two visits to Trignac amounts to more than €2,100.

The prosecution therefore requested two years in prison and the revocation of four months of suspended prison sentence pronounced in May 2022.

Me Flora Touron, the defense lawyer, admitted that she had “not much to say” to spare prison for this man with a “disconcerting” personality whose “hazelnut project can make you smile” .

She had also “not sold a dream” to Nika X’s relatives; she had thus “not even asked for a certificate” from one of her aunts who lives “in Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire” so that she would accept that he serve his sentence at her home as part of house arrest under electronic surveillance.

Agence PressPepper

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