Yvelines: the attackers of a retired couple confused thanks to DNA

The door bell which rings out in the middle of the night.

Then everything goes very quickly, the aggression, the tear gas, the blow to the head ... This couple of septuagenarians who live in a small housing estate of Chavenay is not ready to forget that night of September 21 to 22, 2021 and the resulting seven days of total incapacity for work (ITT).

It is 2 a.m. when we ring the bell that night.

The bridegroom gets up.

And when he opens the door of the lodge, he is surprised by two men trying to get home.

The faces of the criminals are hidden by surgical masks.

They are armed with a pistol and a tear gas canister.

But the couple is not decided to let it go.

Both block off and push back the attackers.

In the heat of the moment, one of these nickel-plated feet loses its surgical mask.

What triggers the wrath of these two delinquents.

The retirees were gassed and the butt of a pistol was struck in the head of the husband.

The delinquents flee.

Trapped between the facts and his identification

The gendarmes of the territorial brigade of Noisy-le-Roi intervene initially, carry out the observations, note the traces and clues.

Then it was the investigators of the Versailles Research Section who were seized of the investigation by the Versailles prosecutor's office.

And science is going to give them a serious hand in solving this matter.

Two DNAs not belonging to the victims had been identified and come out two names from the National Automated DNA File (FNAEG).

Two young men of 24 and 26 years old, "very unfavorably known to the courts" according to the formula.

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The youngest of this duo is under several search warrants, in particular for an aggravated theft.

The eldest was imprisoned between Chavenay's assault and his identification.

The gendarmes simply had to go to the Bois d'Arcy remand center to find him and extract him while he was in custody.

Both were heard between December 8 and 9.

The inmate returned to prison to await trial.

The second joined him.