During three hours of debate, they continued to deny en bloc.
"Mr. President, I still don't know what I'm doing here in front of you!
Marquinhos, I didn't even know who he was, and Yvelines, I've never been there… ”François S. was heard since he was released this Wednesday evening by the Versailles criminal court (Yvelines).
He appeared, with two other men, for the attack on the family of the PSG player on March 14, 2021 in Chatou.
Convicted, the other two defendants received sentences ranging from 7 years for the first to 5 years with three years of probation for the second.
On the evening of the events, when the Brazilian captain of PSG faced Nantes at the Parc des Princes, two men wearing hoods and dressed in black had burst into the home of Marquinhos' father, now 54 years old.
The 50-year-old was beaten, then kidnapped along with his two daughters, aged 13 and 16 at the time of the incident.
The thugs get their hands on a meager loot: 2,400 euros in cash, a gold bracelet and two handbags.
Thieves with a heavy pedigree
Investigators from the Versailles banditry repression brigade traced their track by identifying their car, a Peugeot 308 GT, stolen and made up.
She will be found in a parking lot in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, two days after the fact.
The three men already have heavy criminal records.
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Samba G., 30, is suspected of having provided this vehicle which made it possible to go to the scene.
He was tried for possession of a weapon and criminal association.
In court, the man, who lived alone in Massy (Essonne) and has since returned to his mother in Paris, had the answer to everything this Wednesday.
The stolen vehicle?
“I had planned to sell it to make a profit.
“The weapon found at his home during the searches?
“It was given to me by an individual who owed me money.
“The tape corresponding to that discovered in the Peugeot 308?
“My mother ran a moving company…” Jostled by the prosecutor on his agenda, he admitted that he had “trouble with the dates.
“The one who has already spent 14 months in pre-trial detention was finally sentenced to 5 years in prison with three years of probation.
According to the investigation, François S., 30, and Amir E., 24, were the two individuals who entered the home of Marquinhos' father.
A large one, 1.85 m, and a small one, around 1.60 m.
Two malefactors talking to each other in Arabic and expressing themselves in broken English with the victims.
Father of a little boy, François S. has always denied being the one recognized on the photo by the father of Marquinhos and one of his daughters.
The relaxed is the only one to have shown empathy
Presented as tall and of strong build, he hastened to remove his down jacket at the bar to present his slender silhouette.
His DNA had been found on an abandoned hood in the passenger compartment of the 308. During the hearings, he was the only one to have shown empathy for the two young girls.
“I understand, I am a father,” he testified.
In her submissions, the prosecutor nevertheless presented him as “an aggressive and violent individual.
But the Court finally exonerated him, pronouncing his release.
Egyptian, Amir E is therefore the one who receives the heaviest sentence.
Absent this Wednesday, like his lawyer excused for health reasons, he had refused to be taken out of the cell where he is already serving a 10-year prison sentence for having assaulted several people, still in the Yvelines, at Pecq, in Maisons-Laffitte and a retired notary at his home in Mesnil-le-Roi.
The investigation will not have made it possible to formally establish whether the criminals had deliberately targeted the home of the Marquinhos.
