November 1994, the fruit is ready to be picked. Inspectors from the Paloise branch of the PJ place Doublet and Tomasini in custody for the series of robberies committed two years earlier in Pau and Tournay. As experienced robbers, the two suspects deny everything and even the evidence. Confronted with CCTV images taken in bank branches, Jean-Pierre Doublet says he is unable to recognize himself when his morphology is strictly the same. As for Tomasini, he thinks he’s brandishing the perfect alibi by asserting that he had sold his famous Renault 25 a long time ago! Lies. Unfortunately for them, the wigs and caps discovered at their homes closely match the testimonies of bank employees who remember them all the better because they have experienced the fright of their lives. As for the gendarme of Tournay who almost lost his life in October 92, he recognizes Tomasini without the slightest hesitation!
Time to be accountable
After a meticulous investigation, the Palois investigating judge Christian Mirande sent the two thieves back to the Assize Court in the fall of 1996. Accused of four armed robberies and an attempted murder of a soldier from the gendarmerie, they risk a lot. According to the police who came to testify at the bar, Doublet and Tomasini are the two pillars of the “garbage bag gang”, because of the blue plastic bags in which they carried their loot. Facing the judges, the two Provençals chew everything: “If we were organized crime in Marseille, do you think we would become robbery smicards? “. A joke that hardly amuses the court and the Basque and Béarn jurors in whose eyes Doublet and Tomasini are guilty. The two uncles gunslingers now go to the checkout: Doublet gets fifteen years in prison, Tomasini a third less: ten years. The currency of the coin in short…
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