Mamadou K. is what we call an airlift.
In other words, a top-flight burglar specializing in breakages from the roofs of the capital's beautiful neighborhoods.
This 46-year-old man was sentenced Thursday evening by the Paris Criminal Court to three years in prison, two of which were suspended.
Before the bar of the XXIst room, the forty-something appeared for having committed two burglaries, on December 3, 2019 and April 17, 2020, pocketing with a mysterious accomplice a loot of 190,000 euros in cash, jewelry, leather goods and watches luxury.
Sporty appearance and powerful hands, the man is endowed with the physique of the job.
His technique consisted of using a Pass to slip into buildings overnight before climbing up the stairs, climbing onto the roofs and then entering an apartment on the top floor by forcing a window.
"My accomplice was smarter than me because I left my DNA"
He has been in the crosshairs of justice for a little over a year.
That day, on the very chic Boulevard Pereire (17th century), a business manager and her lawyer husband returned from the weekend.
The couple discover that the patio door to the kitchen of their apartment, located at the top of the floors, has been forced open.
The thieves searched the home before finding bags and jewelry worth 90,000 euros.
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The investigators of the first district of the judicial police are responsible for carrying out the investigations and discover thanks to the video surveillance cameras in the entrance hall that the thieves with masked faces were two.
One of them left his mark by forcing the patio door to the kitchen.
Second episode, on the night of April 16 to 17, 2020, Place des Etats-Unis (16th century): the two criminals take advantage of the owner's departure to rob him.
There again, Mamadou climbs on the roof, forces a window and lets in his accomplice.
The thieves drown the alarm box under water and tear off all the electrical wires.
They try to break into the safe.
But the door resists and Mamadou leaves his DNA there.
The two men get their hands on $ 1,000, Chanel bags and luxury watches, for loot amounting to 100,000 euros.
In early December 2020, investigators from the DRPJ in Paris arrested the burglar at his home in Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis).
During his custody and before these judges last Thursday, this thief confesses.
“I had a lot of financial problems.
I'm very sorry, their thief breathes, while refusing to give any information on his accomplice.
He was smarter than me because I left my DNA. ”
Mamadou says he sold his booty to a receiver for… 1500 euros.
"It's a duo that always knocks on the right door"
The burglar has already been convicted twice for escalation theft but maintains that this case is a mishap.
For the prosecutor, the forty-something is anything but an amateur.
“It's a duo that always knocks on the right door.
He chooses the accommodations where he finds gems, watches and handbags.
These are serious and unpleasant facts, ”remarks the magistrate.
The climber, father of four, is said to have acted to pay off 6,000 euros in debt and to provide for his eldest daughter and his ex-wife who suffer from health problems.
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Me Arnaud Dobblair, his lawyer, believes that his client is not “a high-profile burglar.
The proof, he leaves his DNA, is a rookie mistake.
He let himself be guided by the lure of profit. "
Mamadou will not go to prison because he will serve the firm part of his sentence in the form of an electronic bracelet.
