This victim present at the hearing testifies: “They arrived with a machete, I thought it was the last day of my life! They grabbed me, shoved me and brought me to the trunk. One of them said: 'If you can't do it, I'm going to beat you up.'”
This is an example of three robberies carried out in Talence in 2019. After a long investigation phase, it took five years for the facts to be judged, this Friday, January 24, before the Bordeaux criminal court. Acts of a criminal nature but which the justice system preferred to reduce to misdemeanors so that they could be judged more quickly. Three individuals were prosecuted.
The first robbery took place on June 26. Three hooded men arrive at a tobacconist and threaten the owner with a 30 cm knife and screwdrivers. He must give 22,000 euros in gambling tickets, cartons of cigarettes and cash. To leave no trace, the attackers wear socks on their hands. But one of them will touch the cash register and leave his prints. He would be arrested two years later.
Another violent robbery in a meeting three days later. This time, 17,000 euros are on board. But the criminals forgot a bag. On it, the police found the DNA of the first suspect, and a second (one of the defendants).
They deny outright
Last done in the Nansouty district in Bordeaux, a month later, with loot of 7,000 euros. Here again, the biological traces found on cigarette packets point to the suspects.
-“They grabbed me, shoved me and brought me to the trunk. One of them said: 'If you don't succeed, I'm going to beat you up'”
The latter deny it outright. “Let me guess, if your DNA was found in two different burglaries, it was the result of a DNA transfer? » asks the president. “I was unlucky,” replied a defendant without flinching. Another added: “I had nothing to do with any of this. »
Logically, the lawyers of these young people aged 21 to 32 pleaded for release. The court sentenced them to sentences of two, three and four years (half suspended) with immediate incarceration.