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Figure of organized crime, "The American" finds freedom in a case of weapons of war

2021-02-03T15:19:36.030Z


This 47-year-old man, convicted fourteen times, specialist in freight theft, holding organized crime in the south of Paris, was released in an a


"The American" has found freedom.

This nickname is that of a figure of Parisian organized crime, aged 47, who was indicted last June in Evry (Essonne), before being imprisoned in a weapons case.

For twenty years, his criminal record has been heavy with fourteen mentions for criminal conspiracy, theft and aggravated violence.

Despite his antecedents, James T., originally from Crosne (Essonne) was released on January 5 by the Paris investigation chamber.

Kalashnikov, assault rifle and shotgun

It is almost by chance that in the spring of 2020 it fell into the hands of investigators from the judicial police of Versailles.

On June 17, it was 7:30 a.m. in Quincy-sur-Sénart (Essonne), when police officers on patrol saw a man coming out of the forest with a gun hidden in plastic packaging.

The suspect gets into his car and flees.

He escapes the police who still manage to identify the owner of the vehicle.

He is an ambulance company boss but also a well-known robber of the police and the judiciary.

He was arrested at his home in Quincy.

There, we discover an arsenal consisting of a chrome Kalashnikov assault rifle, an AR15 - MK12, black and red automatic rifle and a 12 gauge shotgun and ammunition.

"My client is a bona fide receiver"

Investigators from the Versailles judicial police are responsible for further investigations.

Six months later, the course of arms remains a mystery.

"We know that they come from abroad but we do not know their origin and if they were to be used for a bad blow", specifies a source close to the case.

Contraband assault rifles often come from the Balkans.

"In this case my client is a bona fide receiver," assures him of his counsel, Me David-Olivier Kaminski.

One of his acquaintances asked for his help in recovering his weapons which had been stolen ”.

The judges were undoubtedly sensitive to the arguments of the Parisian tenor and they acceded to his request for release.

But this release makes cough on the side of the police.

"He is a supporter of organized crime in the south of Paris," assures a police commissioner.

James T. and members of his family are from Crosne and Valenton.

They belong to that criminalized fringe of Travelers who have earned their stripes within the more traditional world of organized crime ”.

Multiple arrests

The American 'pedigree is quite impressive.

There are arrests in the Val-de-Marne for alcoholic behavior but especially cases of theft with violence.

He fell for the first time with his stepfather for a robbery with violence committed in 2001 in Riom (Puy-de-Dôme).

Then he was arrested in 2007 by investigators from the Paris banditry repression brigade for the attack on an organized gang freight truck committed with thirteen other men and women.

Three years later, James T. fell in the nets of the police officers of the research and intervention brigade of the PJ of Versailles, for a theft with kidnapping and sequestration committed at the home of a couple from Arras (Pas-de -Calais).

It was the day after the attack on January 25, 2010, thanks to several anonymous information, that the police arrested the criminals in the Crosne camp.

Balaclavas, jewelry and weapons were found.

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In December 2018, "the American" was arrested by the gendarmes of the central office for the fight against itinerant delinquency (OCLDI) with a team of five other experienced criminals, among whom were his father and his brother but also a close to the famous van robber Antonio Ferrara.

James T. is his accomplices, were suspected of having robbed a truck containing a cargo of cigarettes in December 2017 in Ormesson (Val-de-Marne) but also of having carried out two other attacks, in March and April 2017 in Aube and Marne.

The total damage was estimated at more than one million euros.

For this case, James T. was sentenced in 2019 in Troyes (Aube) to a four-year prison sentence.

The forty-something had been confused thanks to a genetic fingerprint found on a walkie-talkie abandoned in a truck, on April 7, 2017, in Piney (Marne).

The thieves had chosen this quiet town to tranship the cargo of 550,000 euros of cigarettes and free the two drivers taken hostage during the robbery.

Source: leparis

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