Their modus operandi was well established.
One was driving.
The other put on a yellow chasuble and rang at doors, a card under his arm.
After defrauding or attempting to trap several elderly people in Lagny-sur-Marne, Coulommiers and Fontenay-Trésigny, these two fake postmen, aged 19 and 24, were arrested last week.
They were judged Friday in immediate appearance by the correctional court of Meaux and condemned both.
The facts date back to June 4.
At the beginning of the afternoon, an individual in delivery uniform came to the home of an octogenarian from the Windmill residence in Lagny.
“I have a package for you,” he assures her, before asking her for a delivery charge of 50 cents, payable only by credit card.
The 89-year-old tenant began by complying until the "postman" asked her for the code, by inserting the card into a device similar to those generally used by delivery people.
Nine days of ITT for one of the 89-year-old victims
Taken by a doubt, she tries to oppose, but the man pushes her away, grabs her by the neck and puts her on the ground.
He goes to find his accomplice who is waiting for him at the foot of the building at the wheel of a Smart.
The two men rush downtown to withdraw money with the card.
They manage to pocket 850 euros.
It was the victim's nephew, warned of the attack, who alerted the police while his aunt was taken care of by the emergency services.
She will be issued nine days of total incapacity for work (ITT).
On the spot, the investigators realize very quickly that two other elderly people were almost trapped by the duo.
One having claimed to have her sons at home, the other telling them firmly that he was not expecting a package.
The exploitation of video surveillance will make it possible to identify the two suspects and to realize that they are also wanted for similar scams committed the same morning in Coulommiers and Fontenay-Trésigny, in the gendarmerie zone.
From then on, the Lagny police officers and the soldiers of the Coulommiers research brigade were jointly seized of the investigation and worked hand in hand.
They establish that the duo began this day of June 4 with the city of the Templars in Coulommiers.
Around 10 a.m., the man in the chasuble rang the doorbell of an 88-year-old lady, collected her card and her code and found her driver to immediately draw some money, in this case 200 euros.
Previously, they also tried their luck there twice with a 66-year-old man and an 85-year-old woman.
In vain.
Around 11:15 a.m., their trace was spotted near Fontenay-Trésigny.
A resident of Square Mermoz falls into the trap and is offloaded a few minutes later by 1,000 euros.
A neighbor, aged 85, narrowly escapes the scam.
The various investigations allow the investigators to formally identify the suspects, who are moreover recognized by their victims, eight in number.
The man in the chasuble, who is also on semi-freedom, is well known to the police.
He lives in the Val-de-Marne.
His accomplice, 19 years old and domiciled in Paris, had never been talked about.
Last Tuesday, police and gendarmes took action and arrested the two men.
During their police custody, they admitted the facts, even if the false postman denied having jostled the octogenarian injured in Lagny.
The Smart driver explained that he was paid 300 euros for his “work”.
On Friday, he was given a twelve-month suspended prison sentence and a ban on traveling to Seine-et-Marne for three years.
The "delivery man" was sentenced to four years in prison, a sentence accompanied by a ban on appearing in the department for five years.
He was imprisoned immediately.
