Armed robberies at service stations in Gard: the trial opens this Monday at the Nîmes Assize Court

This Monday, January 20, at the Nîmes Assize Court, the trial opens involving Karim Y., suspected of having committed several armed robberies in service stations in Gard. Nine more precisely, distributed between Alès, Uzès, Pont-Saint-Esprit and Tresques. A case which dates back more than twenty years and which continues until Wednesday January 22.

Nine robberies committed more than twenty years ago

In December 2003, two men on a motorcycle entered several gas stations in the department to steal the cash register. Thefts which are committed according to testimonies, under the threat of a weapon, even by violence. In this file, Karim Y. will be identified as the alleged author of the attacks. The motorcycle used for the robberies was identified as his. At that time, he was imprisoned in Switzerland for theft committed in a jewelry store and another in… a gas station. Clothes found in a vehicle and the testimony of a victim confirm the hypothesis of Karim's role in this affair. Sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment in May 2014 while he was on the run, he was finally arrested after the issuance of a European committal warrant.

His alleged accomplice, who was arrested and sentenced in 2013 to eight years in prison, then twelve years on appeal, will finally be acquitted after an appeal in May 2017. In this case, Karim Y., who is represented by Me Nadia El Bouroumi faces a sentence of twenty years in prison.