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Essonne: six people convicted of having kidnapped a man suspected of motorcycle theft

2021-12-10T19:32:15.024Z


Six defendants were sentenced Friday by the Evry court to sentences ranging from 14 to 18 months suspended for having ...


Six defendants were sentenced Friday by the Evry court to sentences ranging from 14 to 18 months suspended prison sentence for having kidnapped, in 2017 in Vigneux-sur-Seine (Essonne), a man suspected of having stolen a motorcycle and for keeping it in a car for several hours.

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On October 16, 2017, when he discovered a burglary in his parents' garage and the theft of his motorcycle, a young man, then 27 years old, tried to find the driver of a red Audi A3, whom he suspected to be the author of the theft.

"

He wanted to do justice to himself

", summarizes his lawyer Me Anne Souraya.

"

He experienced the theft of this motorcycle with an exaggerated reaction, which does not correspond at all to his personality,

" she told AFP.

"Bring the money alone, otherwise I'm dead"

"

They came back to my house, where my family is ... They gassed my dog. I reacted stupidly,

”he said at the helm. With the help of his 21-year-old little brother and three friends, all unknown to the police, they manage to find the young man they were looking for in a petrol station in Vigneux-sur-Marne, at the end of the day. -midday. Frightened, he flees but the defendant manages to join him and convince him to get into his car.

The victim will remain in this vehicle for several hours and will be beaten, while sending multiple messages to his relatives asking them for money. "

Bring the money alone, otherwise I am dead

", he wrote in particular to a friend in the evening. Faced with his inability to find the stolen motorcycle, the defendants ask him to reimburse it, or to give them a sum of 3000 euros. They end up freeing him around 1:00 am, near the Sénart forest, without having recovered any money. Before the court, all the defendants, placed under judicial control, say they regret these acts. "

I acted in a foolish way

," admits one of them. "

We weren't ourselves tonight, we have no history of violence

." "

The situation slipped out of our hands and it has become rubbish

, ”said another who said“

bitterly regret

”.

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Me Roland Pirolli, the victim's lawyer, said, "

do not understand why they attacked

" his client, aged 21 at the time of the facts.

He was terrified and at no time was free to move around.

"Me Anne Souraya pleads, she,"

the accident of course

"and ensures that"

her client will never appear again in his life in front of a court

".

While the prosecutor had requested sentences of between 8 and 12 months suspended imprisonment, the Evry court decided to pronounce a more severe sentence, between 14 and 18 months of suspension, as well as the payment of 6,000 euros to the victim for moral damage.

Source: lefigaro

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