closed prison for the two thieves from the Mendès-France zone, only one goes to detention

Despite his conviction, he had a smile. He even discreetly check his lawyer, M^e Camille Gaufichon. This resident of Poitiers, in Vienne, was sentenced to six months in prison, but adjustable, at the end of his trial in immediate appearance which opened the criminal hearing on Thursday, December 19, 2024 at the Niort courthouse: he is free.

The 39-year-old defendant was one of the two thieves referred two days earlier following their custody at the police station, to the prosecutor’s office in the capital of Deux-Sèvres: repeat offenders, the duo had then been placed in pre-trial detention while awaiting trial.

“I had everything to be good…”

So behind the wheel, the thirty-year-old had picked up his friend for a day hitchhiking two hours before they committed crime together: it was on the afternoon of Sunday December 15. The duo pushes to a parking lot in the Mendès-France commercial zone, rue Robert-Turgot.

At Action, the suspects stole an external battery, a USB key, a suitcase and even an energy drink. At Conforama, the tandem got their hands on an enclosure: monitored after their initial misdeed, the two suspects were arrested around 4:45 p.m. by the police, just as they were getting into the vehicle and one of them They were trying hard to remove the anti-theft device from “the baffle”.

The driver had been released from detention two months earlier. With a permanent job in Niort – bus driver – and accommodation. But twenty-four convictions on the clock: “I have no explanation, I had everything to be fine… I am the one at fault and I bitterly regret it. When I found myself in police custody, I was on the verge of hanging myself because I was so disgusted. »

This recognition of the offenses, tempers the substitute placed Anne Laparra, was “more laborious during the first hearings before the investigators. There, with his back against the wall, he apologizes.” What the representative of the public prosecutor wants is “a real awareness”.

“Flights of opportunity”

A native of Châteauroux, in Indre, the second 47-year-old thief was punished by eight months of imprisonment, remaining behind bars: before this sanction, this homeless man under reinforced curatorship was walking around with three weapons to “cut bread” et “protect oneself” had already passed the mark of twenty mentions blackening his record. “He allowed himself to be drawn into these flights of opportunity,” considers his advice, M^e Ambroise Garlopeau.

The duo is banned from appearing before Action and Conforama for three years. “We don’t work to feel attacked”railed a representative of the second brand who had made the trip to the courtroom.