A team of nickel feet. This is, in summary, the profile of the three co-defendants tried last week before the Assize Court of Seine-et-Marne. This Friday, November 22, Tarek T., 36, received 10 years of criminal imprisonment. His two accomplices, Mheidi B., 40 years old and Farid A. 37 years old, were sentenced to 12 years in prison. Deemed free, the first two were incarcerated. The third never appeared before the Assize Court after spending more than two and a half years in pre-trial detention.
It must be said that this trial was held more than six years after the events after having been postponed twice. On September 24, 2018, around 10:50 a.m., police officers were alerted that a theft involving two cash conveyors from the Loomis company had just occurred near an aquatic center in Lagny-sur-Marne (Seine-et-Marne). ). The two victims, driving an unmarked van, carrying secure cases containing the proceeds of several businesses, were surprised by four criminals, armed with an electric pulse gun, telescopic batons, clubs, a hammer and tear gas canisters. The quartet is also dressed in dark clothing and bandanas over their faces.
In their escape, they hit another car and seriously injured its driver.
After blocking the van with a Volkswagen Touran vehicle, two of the thugs smashed the front windows of the conveyor vehicle with a club, before removing them by force and assaulting them. Their objective: to seize the secure cases placed in the back of the van. But a first obstacle stands in the way of the robbers. These cases have a security system that makes them impossible to open without the appropriate keys. Worse: if the briefcases are taken out of their location without respecting the security procedure, indelible ink spreads on the money contained inside.
So many elements that the four robbers seem to ignore. After demanding the opening, without success, of the famous cases at the conveyor belts, the thieves still stole three, before getting into a Mercedes CLA, stolen a few days before the events. Before fleeing, they set fire to the van and the Touran, then were chased by a police patrol. Arriving near the town of Villevaudé, the driver of the Mercedes collided, at very high speed, with a motorist at the wheel of her Peugeot 208. Under the violence of the impact, the driver’s vehicle rolled several times, while the car of the The robbers end up in a ditch. Very seriously injured, the driver of the Peugeot must be extricated from the passenger compartment before seeing her total work interruption (ITT) set at 132 days.
Caught by two police officers, a robber says in a provocative tone: “Well, go ahead and shoot!” »
The four robbers manage to flee across the field, leaving behind their loot, consisting of nearly €30,000 and two bags of coins. One of them is even caught by two police officers chasing him to whom he says in a provocative and confident tone: “you’re not going to shoot anyway. Well, go ahead and shoot! » Before disappearing among the ears of corn…
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Having been informed of the investigations, the investigators of the Meaux judicial police had no great difficulty in tracing the trail of three of the suspects. The latter, like Little Thumbs of crime, left behind a host of incriminating elements. There, a car key rented at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport under the identity of one of them; here, the genetic fingerprint of two others. Or even clothing items and equipment used during this violent theft.
Described as “relatively immature” and “intolerant of frustration”, he admits to being “in love with money”
On November 19, 2018, Tarek T., Mheidi B. and Farid A. were arrested in Chelles, Les Pavillons-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis) and Sannois (Val d’Oise). These fathers with heavy criminal records initially deny their participation in the facts. Before recognizing their involvement for two of them.
One month before the events, one completed a sentence modification using an electronic bracelet. Described as “relatively immature” and “intolerant of frustration”, he admits to being “in love with money”. Another has already appeared before a criminal court in 2014 for an attempted robbery and was on parole at the time of the events…
Finally, the last, a heavy goods vehicle driver by profession, took over the operation of a convenience store with one of his brothers and saw, in this attack on the Loomis conveyors, a “good way” to repay his debts. …
According to the conveyors, the robbers were in panic, poorly organized and obviously incompetent…
But in the opinion of the conveyors themselves, traumatized by this theft and the violence suffered, the operation was doomed to failure. “They didn’t know how to proceed with the cases, they were in panic” according to one of the Loomis employees. “It was poorly organized and they showed obvious incompetence,” said the second.
An unpreparedness and an amateurism which becomes apparent during a telephone interception between Tarek T., then detained, and his partner. “At the last minute, they told me: come, there are briefcases, come, it’s just a snatch. In the end, it ends up in armed robbery.” “I have never had a weapon in my hands,” assures the same person. I didn’t expect it to make such a big deal (sic), if I would have known, never in my life, I would do something like that. There, it’s the foundations, oh the foundations? ! For me, it’s on TV on NRJ12! »
On the other hand, the Meaux PJ police officers never managed to identify the fourth accomplice of this poorly put together gang. Neither determined the name of a possible fifth accomplice who appeared during the hearing. A certain Hakim, nicknamed “Peanut”, and presented as the “instigator” of this bad move. Asked, Me Karim Morand-Lahouazi, the lawyer for Farid A., absent at the trial and under an arrest warrant, “did not wish to speak”.
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