On the evening of February 21, 2021, a couple in their eighties was attacked at their home in Sanilhac-Sagriès. They were beaten and tied up. Three men are sentenced to 12 to 8 years in prison.
This Tuesday, Max, 86, and Christiane, 82, were not in the criminal court room. Traumatized by what they experienced on the evening of February 21, 2021 in their house in Sanilhac-Sagriès. That evening, Max and Christiane had planned to watch a movie on television. Hooded and gloved criminals entered their house. Christiane heard a noise in the kitchen. His hands and feet are tied. One of the attackers crushes his face with his shoe and tears off the bracelet. She will suffer a ruptured tendon. Thieves are looking for the safe. Max is tied to the ground with a cable, beaten. «Where is the chest », yells one of the thugs. The thieves open the safe, take tickets, three Napoleons, the passports of the two victims. After the departure of the criminals, the octogenarians manage to detach themselves and join their neighbor who alerts the gendarmes. This resident and the employee of the bakery had clearly spotted, during the day, the carousel of three men sitting on a low wall and noted the passage of a white Fiat. The gendarmes quickly made connections with other attacks in the Hérault involving Travelers. Suspects are wiretapped. Three men, Dominique Hatchadourian, a 57-year-old Marseillais, defended by Me Khadija Aoudia, Teddy Patrac, 34 years old and Jason Chevalier, 29 years old, two cousins defended by My Frédéric Ortéga and Ludivine Gloriès appeared this Tuesday before the criminal court. Arrested by the gendarmes, Jason Chevalier recognizes the facts. “Patrac started to grab the lady. Me, sir. At first he wouldn’t give me the key to the safe. There were banknotes but not gold coins… In total, there were for 3400 €.” “What is Dominique Hatchadourian doing?”asks him the president of the court, Jérôme Reynes. ” He is with me “assures Jason Chevalier who, during his police custody, was constant and designated Dominique Hatchadourian as one of his accomplices. “Were you pressured”, insists the president. « Non”, assures the defendant who, in the defendants’ box, has put a little distance, with the two other suspects. Because Teddy Patrac affirms that the “Marseillais is not one of the aggressors “I was not there, protests Dominique Hatchadourian. On Sundays, I went to Collias to sell onions and potatoes. And I’m sick of the heart. At my age ! I have a disabled hand. Look”, protests Dominique Hatchadourian.
“Reality is the sordid, cowardice”
“For what reasons did they attack two old men. They have no answer”, notes Me Olivier Goujon, the victims’ lawyer. The reality is the sordid, the cowardly. They ruined the end of life of two people who only have a few years to live.“ The representative of the prosecution Romain Domingues requested sentences of 12 years in prison (for Dominique Hatchadourian), 10 years in prison for Teddy Patrac and 8 years in prison, for Jason Chevalier and bans on staying in the Gard. Late in the evening, the lawyers pleaded for the three defendants. Me Khadija Aoudia pleaded for the release of Dominique Hatchdourian. Jason Chevalier was sentenced to 8 years in prison, Dominique Hatchadourian to 12 years in prison and Teddy Patrac to 10 years in prison. They are all sentenced to a five-year ban on staying in the Gard.
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