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Violent burglary by Bernard Tapie: the investigation taken up by the Paris prosecutor's office

2021-04-05T12:07:40.701Z


During the night from Saturday to Sunday, Bernard Tapie and his wife Dominique were attacked in their residence in Combs-la-Ville (Seine-et-Marn


Images that are cold in the back and an investigation that changes hands.

While the Paris prosecutor's office has just announced that they have resumed the investigation opened by the Melun prosecutor's office into the robbery of the Tapie couple, the family published photos of Bernard and Dominique Tapie on Monday, showing their faces swollen by the violence of blows they received during the night from Saturday to Sunday, when they were attacked in their residence in Combs-la-Ville (Seine-et-Marne) by burglars.

Individuals described as "cowards" by Stéphane Tapie, their son, who published this Monday at midday a snapshot of his father on his Twitter account.

You cowards that you are 😡😡 I do not wish you that this happens to your parents one day.

Look at yourself in a mirror and dare to say that you are not ashamed of your ignominy.

Hope the police find you before me 😡😡 pic.twitter.com/AnGliMNsYN

- Stéphane Tapie (@TapieStephane) April 5, 2021

Regarding the investigation, the Paris prosecutor's office specifies in a press release that “the specialized interregional court (Jirs) of Paris took up (Sunday) the facts suffered by Mr. Tapie and his wife the previous night.

The investigation, followed by the heads of organized robberies, sequestration to facilitate the commission of an organized crime and criminal association, is entrusted to the Regional Directorate of the Judicial Police of Versailles ”.

"He is KO, very tired"

Since Sunday morning and the announcement of this violent burglary, while Bernard Tapie is still fighting the disease, the affair has moved a good part of the country.

Around half past midnight on Saturday, Bernard and Dominique Tapie were surprised in their sleep in their home in Combs-la-Ville by four hooded attackers dressed in black overalls who tied them with electric cables and beat them, before taking the leaked with two watches and jewelry.

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The 78-year-old businessman, who suffers from double cancer of the stomach and esophagus, was notably hit with a baton on the head.

His wife Dominique, who received blows in the face, managed to get rid of her ties to go to a neighbor from where she gave the alert.

She was briefly hospitalized for consultation.

"My grandfather refused to be taken, he stayed at home, he is knocked out, very tired," Rodolphe Tapie testified to AFP on Sunday.

"Determined" to be present when his trial resumes

Dominique Tapie "was pulled by the hair because there was a treasure that had to be found ... Of course, there was no treasure, and the violence was all the stronger as they could not find anything ”, declared the LR mayor of this city located about forty kilometers south-east of Paris, Guy Geoffroy.

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Burglary of the Tapie couple: "Dominique's face bears the mark of the blows of the attackers"

In the fall, the appeal for fraud in the controversial 2008 Crédit Lyonnais arbitration case was postponed due to Bernard Tapie's state of health, his illness having "very seriously progressed".

At a hearing at the end of March, his lawyer however confirmed that he was "determined" to be present when the trial resumes scheduled for May.

Source: leparis

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