Five men and a woman in their twenties were indicted after having robbed several individuals in their homes, to strip them, in the summer of 2020, in the Gard and Bouches-du-Rhône, announced Monday, July 5 the parquet floor of Nîmes.
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Indicted for "
thefts with weapons and in an organized gang, extortion in an organized gang, criminal conspiracy and violence
", the five men were imprisoned. Their female sidekick, indicted for the same counts, was placed under judicial control, said Estelle Meyer, deputy prosecutor of Nîmes, at a press conference. The arrests occurred in several waves between March and these last days, in the Bouches-du-Rhône, in Marseille, Arles and Tarascon, or in the Gard, in a town near Nîmes.
It is the research section of the gendarmerie of Nîmes which put out of order to harm this team which attacked individuals at their homes, as during these two robberies on the same day, August 14, 2020, in Meynes (Gard) and Aix-en-Provence. During these two "
homejacking
", the criminals had used firearms and physically attacked at least one of the members of the families concerned. In the case of the attack perpetrated in the Gard village of Meynes, a farmer was even shot and wounded.
Referring to "
four acts of a criminal nature committed in four days, in the summer of 2020
", Estelle Meyer stressed that these "
individuals were growing in a very disturbing way
". This gang, which "was
looking for money, jewelry to sell, bank cards
", would have made "
many victims, injuries and psychological trauma
".
Two of the men involved in this case "
were on the run when they committed these attacks,
" said Colonel Bertrand Michel, head of the Nîmes research section, at the same press conference. Two days after entering, armed, a supermarket in Eyguilles, near Aix-en-Provence, they attacked a pianist on August 13, thinking of stealing his stamp at the end of the concert. -Here had just given to La-Roque-d'Anthéron. In total "
the loot of this team amounts to a few thousand euros, mainly cash and jewelry,
" said Colonel Michel.