Last Tuesday, Marie, a young woman of 26, appeared before the criminal court of Nîmes with her father, Xavier, 59, for a theft in a house in Milhaud. A third thief, Bilelle, a friend of the young girl, came to help them in this family business.
They recognize the facts. But not too much anyway. In the court box, we feel the tension between the three defendants. Marie, abandoned very early by her mother and placed in foster care until the age of 12, does not seem to have made peace with her father. ” She does not hesitate to charge it to pass through the cracks Summarizes Patricia Perrien, Dad’s lawyer.
Bilelle, 26, a friend of Marie’s whom she met when they both lived on the streets in Paris, chose the card of sincerity. This seems to annoy Xavier, the father, who played big last Tuesday in immediate appearance. The 50-year-old has 40 mentions on his record! ” A real professional in delinquency. He has committed all the crimes that we study in the second year of law », Will say of him the prosecutor Romain Domingues.
It was Xavier who would have prepared this burglary in the house of an octogenarian who lives in Milhaud. The house was unoccupied at the time of the incident, but it houses some very beautiful pieces including a bronze horse valued at € 30,000. On the night of November 6 to 7, for nearly four hours, the three loustics will patiently load their truck with valuables from the house. CCTV footage, which filmed the exteriors, shows Marie on the lookout while her father and friend handled the load. ” I was gone with my dad, but I didn’t know what was going to happen », Marie tries, 8 mentions on his criminal record. Beside her, her father raises his eyebrows as if to say that his daughter is lying. And Bilelle, also 8 mentions and who has nothing to lose, puts a layer against the dad: ” Everything was prepared that evening. Monsieur has experience, he spots abandoned houses ».
Representing the victim, who could not be present at the hearing, Me Caroline Greffier tells the story of this bronze horse which has never been found: ” This room had been walled up during the Second World War by the parents of my client so that the Germans would not take it. She resisted WWII, but not this trio “. In turn, the trio will not resist the Nîmes court which sentences Xavier, the father, to 3 years in prison. His daughter, Marie, left with a year in prison, half of which was suspended. The friend Bilelle receives one year in prison including 8 months suspended. They will have to jointly reimburse € 37,000 to the victim.
Tony Duret
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