By Inès Genetay
Published on 23 Jan 21 at 8:32
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Three men aged 21, 22 and 25 were appearing before the Chartres Criminal Court (Eure-et-Loir), this Thursday 21 January 2021, including two in pre-trial detention.
Two brothers-in-law were charged with homejacking and burglary with forcible confinement. The first, the November 5, 2019, at the home of an elderly man, located in the town of Yèvres. In the night, the victim is awakened by noise, he goes out on the terrace before receiving a doe kick on the skull.
Five men (the two brothers-in-law and three other unknown individuals) and enter his house, steal the television, son wallet and his Peugeot 108.
They kidnap a caregiver and an elderly amputee
One of the defendants said that the victim was chosen because a friend told him he had “the face of a sexual predator, but we did not know that he was an elderly person”.
Fifteen days later, the November 19, 2019, at La Bourdinière-Saint-Loup, it is past two o’clock in the morning when a group of three individuals broke into the home of a 89 year old lady, amputated leg. She sleeps, watched over by her carer.
The two brothers-in-law admit at the bar to have put serflexes on the wrists of the caregiver. Burglars steal jewelry, a cell phone and bank cards.
A sexual attack against the caregiver?
The third defendant is accused of having brought sexual impairment to the caregiver. According to the victim’s account to investigators, the 21-year-old would have taken him upstairs, while the other two burgled the house.
Being masked, the defendant would then have stroked her chest and pushed onto the bed. According to one of the accused: “He told us that he told him: if you don’t tell me where the money is, I will rape you”. The respondent denies en bloc having been on the spot, that night.
I have nothing to do with it all. I was in debt to the other two, they had been oppressing me for a few weeks. One evening, they sent me a message on Snapchat, I left my house. They had jewelry, they asked me to sell it, that would settle my debt.
The Chartres Criminal Court recognized them all guilty. They get penalties ranging four to five years’ imprisonment.
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