“I still feel the metal of the gun on my head.
“More than four years after his assault, the dabist, who testified this Friday before the Hauts-de-Seine Assize Court, appears to be lastingly marked.
This 39-year-old man is the first victim of the team of robbers tried for four bank attacks, two of which failed, with kidnapping of dabists, these technicians responsible for the maintenance of cash machines.
At the helm, his identity and his profession barely declined, the thirty-something is overwhelmed with emotion.
Before recounting this day of October 18, 2016, which “changed (his) life”, Dang wants to talk about the one “before”.
“Me and my parents are refugees from Vietnam.
I was 6 or 7 years old when we arrived in France.
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Sequestered a week after signing his CDI
After his studies in computer science and when he had just met his partner, Dang had the opportunity to be hired as a dabiste at PMC, a cash transport company.
“I didn't even know this profession existed.
I didn't know the dangers.
But I accepted because I was going to have a permanent contract.
I signed my contract.
A week later, I was kidnapped, ”he continues.
On the morning of this day when everything changed, Dang went to the fort to collect his roadmap for the day: vending machines to reload with tickets, others to troubleshoot.
It begins with the BNP on avenue de Choisy, in Paris (13th).
“I was walking towards the BNP and there, two people came to accost me.
One put a gun there, ”recounts the dabist, touching his left hip.
“He pushed me, I was under stress, I didn't know what was going on.
When I understood, I said:
Are these the keys you want?
He replied:
Yes, the keys, the codes, everything
.
There, I understood that I was going to have a bad time.
I was shaking.
He took me to a truck… In the truck, the gun was pointed at my head.
"
"I was panicked," Dang says, in tears.
Visibly upset, Dang continues his story with the episode of the twenty minutes in which he was held hostage in this "truck" (a Jumpy van)
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while one of the robbers entered the bank's security lock and won 134,000 euros.
Just seeing the weapon is scary, so a weapon on your head, continues the dabiste, who bursts into tears while noting: “My life depended on these people.
Trembling at the helm, his face flooded with tears, he struggles to get a grip on himself.
Then renews the thread of his story.
“I was panicked, I was just hanging my head, it was cold this metal.
"
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The robbery completed, the two attackers hit the road, Dang still in the truck and at gunpoint.
“The oldest took the wheel, I was in the back of the truck.
They told me that they would let go of Porte de Montreuil but it lasted so long that I wondered where I was being taken.
When they took me out, I found myself in the middle of buildings, in a city.
I didn't even know where I was.
It was in Saint-Denis that the robbers freed their hostage with instructions not to move for five minutes before speaking to anyone.
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Before entering the bank, the robbers forced their hostage to give them his keys.
And the codes to dial to unlock the airlock.
“I said 3004 but it was 3003. As the youngest, the one with the wig, went to the bank, he said:
Is it 3003, the code?
He knew, they knew everything.
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A mole among the colleagues of the dabiste
Indeed, Mourad A., the man with the ash-blond wig, and his accomplice Azdine B., "the oldest", the one who held the weapon, had well prepared the blow.
Through an intermediary, a colleague of Dang had provided them with the code numbers.
And even designated the dabiste as a good target to aim for.
Not very strong, beginner, he was not going to put up too much resistance.
“The worst part is that after the assault, when I got back to work, he was there.
He humiliated me.
Why did he choose me?
He could have gone there himself and made the false victim ... But he's too cowardly.
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Tried for complicity, the colleague of Dang turned mole did not move all the time of the deposition of the dabist.
At his side, there is also the intermediary, also former dabiste.
And in the box, alongside Mourad A. and Azdine B., a third accused: Adel M. The latter is not prosecuted for the robbery of the BNP of avenue de Choisy, the first in the series, but for the three others, that of Paris and the failed attempt in Malakoff (Hauts-de-Seine) in January 2017, then the last, failed, in Suresnes (Hauts-de-Seine), on March 25, 2017. The trial continues still the next two weeks.
