Le Figaro Nantes
His run lasted two days.
The police arrested Mehdi Maalim on Thursday, one of the four accused in the trial which had been taking place since January 16 before the Loire-Atlantique assizes, at the Nantes courthouse.
The 40-year-old man, who appeared free, did not appear at the final hearing of the trial, Tuesday January 23, and was thus sentenced in absentia.
The president of the court, Karine Laborde, sentenced him to 9 years in prison for “conspiracy of repeat criminals with the aim of committing a crime”.
A “lone wolf”
An arrest warrant was issued against him on Tuesday, his absence having been considered a flight.
The Nantes public prosecutor, Renaud Gaudeul, confirmed to Le
Figaro
his arrest, Thursday January 25, by agents of the organized and specialized crime investigation section.
He was found in the priority district of Bellevue, located in the west of Nantes.
Well known to the police, the defendant and one of his 37-year-old associates were described during the trial as
“two old-fashioned robbers, two lone wolves”
by the attorney general Sophie Husson, according to the report. from our colleagues from
Ouest-France
.
They were on trial in the case of the kidnapping and gunshot wound of a thirty-year-old, in Rezé, south of Nantes, in September 2020. The two main accused, aged 24 and 23, were sentenced to 12 years of criminal imprisonment.
Mehdi Maalim's comrade, aged 37, received 7 years in prison.