The Franco-Algerian Redouane Ikil, former director of post offices in Toulouse, on the run since his conviction in 2019 to 18 years in prison for the violent robberies of two postal agencies, surrendered to justice in Agen, a-t -we learned Friday, February 11 from a police source.
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“
He telephoned the Agen Court of Appeal to indicate that he would go to the police station, which he did on Thursday morning
,” this source told an AFP correspondent.
According to this same source, the 50-year-old man, originally from Pau, said he wanted to go to court to "
serve his sentence near his family
".
Imprisoned in the remand center of Agen, he must be transferred to the detention center - for long sentences - of Eysses in Villeneuve-sur-Lot.
"
Brain-recruiter
"
Acquitted at first instance, Redouane Ikil - former director of one of the two postal agencies attacked - had been sentenced on July 6, 2019 by the Tarn Assize Court in Albi for "
sequestration
" and "
extortion of funds
".
But he had disappeared just before the verdict at his trial where he appeared free and had since been targeted by an arrest warrant.
He was subsequently arrested in February 2020 in Oran, Algeria.
According to Sud-Ouest, he was released in June 2021. Presented as the "
brain-recruiter
" of the robbers, according to the prosecution, Redouane Ikil has always denied the facts.
The investigation had not made it possible to identify all the perpetrators of the two robberies whose modus operandi was similar.
On March 6, 2012, two hooded men stole 362,000 euros from one of the agencies by threatening a postwoman who was kidnapped in front of her home, beaten and sprayed with flammable liquid.
Then, on May 2, 2013, three men this time kidnapped a La Poste cashier and her family from her home, before again forcing her to open the safe of the agency where she worked.
