Seine-et-Marne. Five young people sentenced after violent store robbery and kidnapping

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They were five accusedincluding a young woman, to appear before the juvenile court of Seine-et-Marne, from October 21 to 25, 2024. The trial in camera allowed us to return to the violent robbery clerk in a business near Fontainebleau, July 26, 2021.

A store robbed in three minutes

Three robbers: – two teenagers and an adult – had burst into the store with a handgun for one, knives for others. The two employees present that day had been molested, as had a customer, beaten on the butt shots on his head, which required stitches.

Within three minutes, the shelves had been robbed and the safe emptied. Phones, jewelry, video games and consoles…: the amount of booty was estimated between €40,000 and €50,000.

A stolen loot

An unfortunate irony of history, this loot, which was stored with the young woman acting as ” nurse », had disappeared into the wild. He was never found.

This disappearance had sown discord in the group of criminals and one of them, wrongly suspected of being the thief, had been beaten with a crowbar then sequesteredseveral daysin the trunk of a car. He was then forcibly taken to the north of France to “deal” and commit other thefts, in order to repay the debt. Having become a victim, he ended up filing a complaint against his accomplice.

Convictions

It was the Melun judicial police who carried out the investigation. The investigations made it possible to arrest the perpetratorsbarely two weeks after the events.

The one who had been the most violent has just received 6 years in prison. Another robber is sentenced to 5 ans. The third accomplice gets away with three years of probationary stay.

One of those involved in the kidnapping and sequestration is sentenced to 4 years in prison two of which were suspended on probation. Finally, a three-year probationary sentence was handed down for the “nanny”.

“A salutary trial”

“This robbery scared customers, we noticed a significant drop in store attendance, and turnoverhas been divided by two deplores the manager, civil party, today. We have also invested more than 27 000 € In a protection system ultra-efficient, identical to that of the Banque de France. This trial has been salutary for us. The most heavily convicted apologized after the verdict, explaining that he had not imagined the disastrous consequences that his act would cause, both on the family level, psychologicalwhatfinancier. We needed to hear it. »

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