The investigation chamber of the Rennes Court of Appeal held in pre-trial detention, this Friday, May 12, 2023, a recipient of the Active Solidarity Income (RSA) accused of having taken part in the “sequestration” and ” organized gang robbery” of a rich septuagenarian from La Richardais (Ille-et-Vilaine).
Daouda X., a 27-year-old unemployed truck driver, was indeed imprisoned on February 10, 2023 following the complaint that had been filed by a 79-year-old man. He was about to turn off his TV at home, avenue de la Rance, when a man who had appeared at his window with a knife asked him where his money was.
Two other individuals had then appeared, according to the old man’s account, and had put a cushion over his face to stifle his cries: “strongly jostled”, he had been slapped and had received “blows in the kidneys”.
The septuagenarian then had to give them the “300 €” he had in his wallet, his bank card, his brand watch and the contents of his safe, had detailed this Thursday, May 11, 2023 the magistrate in charge of reading the documents in the file, during the public hearing where the request for the release of Daouda X. had been examined.
The septuagenarian was then “kneeled” by his attackers and threatened to be “killed” with “a gun” if he did not reveal the place where the rest of his supposed “money” was stored.
Two of the three criminals finally left behind the wheel of the old man’s Mercedes A-Class to make four withdrawals of money from the Postal Bank of La Richardais, for a total of €1,200. For his part, the septuagenarian had finally managed to thwart the surveillance of the third and to take refuge with a neighbor.
The gendarmes of Ploubalay (Côtes-d’Armor) were subsequently able to geolocate the car in Pleurtuit (Ille-et-Vilaine), Pleslin-Trigavou and Beaussais-sur-Mer (Côtes-d’Armor) thanks to the SIM card with which it was equipped. After noting a route to Val-d’Oise, the gendarmes of the Rapid Intervention Brigade (BRI) had set off in pursuit of the criminals but had not however managed to arrest them and had to abandon their project. to stop them.
The suspicions of the investigators had at that time turned to Daouda X., an unemployed truck driver who lives in Villiers-le-Bel (Val-d’Oise) but who spends a lot of time in the Côtes-d’Armor, according to the elements read this Thursday, May 11, 2023 at the hearing of the investigating chamber: the mother of her two children aged 3 and 5 lives in Pleslin-Trigavou.
Already convicted 21 times between 2011 and 2021, including fourteen for aggravated theft, the man also used to go to Garges-lès-Gonesse (Val-d’Oise), where the parents of his ex- companion. However, it is precisely in this town that the Mercedes Class A of the septuagenarian of La Richardais had been found abandoned.
Investigators also believe they have identified his two alleged accomplices: a resident of Pleurtuit unfavorably known to their services, Arthur X., and another from Sarcelles (Val-d’Oise), Oussama X.
The first actually “admitted having participated in the burglary” of the septuagenarian of La Richardais because he “needed money”. He also said “to know” Daouda X. for having played “in the same football club” as him.
The second accomplice of Sarcelles also admitted to the gendarmes having come to steal the “30,000 €” supposed to be from a man “normally absent from his home”, according to the plan which had been transmitted to him by an acquaintance of Villiers-le- Beautiful. But he finally found himself “in the Breton countryside” and in the presence of the victim…
In front of the investigators, Daouda X. for his part disputed any theft and kidnapping, simply admitting to “knowing” the first of his two co-indicted.
His continued detention on remand was therefore “perfectly justified”, from the Advocate General’s point of view: “pressure on the victim” and ano “fraudulent collusion” between the suspects are “to be feared” if released.
As a guarantee of reintegration, Daouda X. – who was pleading his case without a lawyer – had told him that the president of his football club “has businesses in Paris” and that he was able to find him a job. “I was earning a very, very good living outside, but because I am coming out of five years of detention, I am stuck with an image because of my record,” he lamented.
“Today I am a father and I remain presumed innocent … I am wasting my time in prison”, he added to obtain “an electronic bracelet”. “I’ve done it before and it went really well,” he told the judges. But the investigating chamber of the Rennes Court of Appeal was deaf to his arguments and kept him in pre-trial detention.
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