An adult convicted of stealing Aspiran tobacco with a fifteen-year-old minor

The business was robbed on March 9. DR – GOOGLE STREET VIEW

the essential The 28-year-old man and a 15-year-old teenager left with 420 euros; and more than 300 cartons of cigarettes worth 14,000 euros. The adult has just been sentenced and the minor will be tried in September.

On March 9, around 7:30 p.m., the manager of the Aspiran tobacco store, south of Clermont-l’Hérault, was the victim of ;rsquo;a robbery. As it closed, two gloved men with partially hidden faces entered. The stronger of the two had aimed a gun at him. The other, who turned out to be a 15-year-old minor (he was arrested but has not yet been tried), had kicked him in the stomach. They left with 420 € and more than 300 cartons of cigarettes worth 14,000 euros.

The robbers' car, a Peugeot 107 stolen from Pézenas, was found burned in the vineyards the next day. Dorian, the armed individual on March 9, had been driving it for several days, as video surveillance showed. A witness had also recognized him in the photos of the robbery displayed in the store, and he had been seen in the same outfit, the same morning, in a bar in Paulhan.

"I’had been threatened because I’had a debt of 10 000 €"

Ten days later, he was arrested following a new offense which required him to appear in court on March 27. He was sentenced to 18 months in prison, 6 of which were suspended.

In police custody, Dorian also admitted his participation in the Aspiran robbery. This permanent security manager, who practiced MMA assiduously, explained that he had to stop everything after suffering an internal hemorrhage. Lacking activity to channel his "impulsivity", he had fallen into an addiction to cocaine and gambling. "I had been threatened because I had a debt of 10,000  euros."

This 28-year-old man had been taken out of prison to be tried before the Montpellier criminal court, very recently. Despite his solid build and his tattoos, he kept a low profile in court. While claiming not to have prepared anything on the day of the robbery.
"I hadn't been myself for four days, he explained. I had only seen the miner three or four times in total. That day, we met in a nearby village. He showed me a gun and we found the gloves in the car. It was decided at the last moment."

Four years, two of which are suspended

While three years of imprisonment, one of which was suspended, had been given required, it was a sentence of four years in prison, two of which were suspended, which was imposed. pronounced. Continued detention was continued. pronounced, as well as medical expertise.

Dorian will have to pay the public treasury and compensate the victims, seek treatment, work or undergo training. He is prohibited from contacting the tobacconist. Compensation will be determined at a hearing in 2025. In the meantime, he will have to pay 4 600 € à the victim of the car theft.

"The victim was unaware that the weapon was firing blanks"

The day of the robbery, Dorian claims to have quit tobacco "with 60 € and three cartons of cigarettes. We had planned to meet again to split 50/50. He had slept in the car, among the vineyards, before setting it on fire. "I didn’it was stolen", he said. According to the owner’s lawyer, the victim had bought it for for 4 000 € and used it to go see his grandchildren. She can't do it anymore today".

During the trial, the tobacconist confessed to having "a trauma following the attack and the fear that it would happen again".
"This aggravated robbery could have been qualified as armed robbery and tried before the assizes where he was liable to twenty years in prison, declared the prosecutor . The weapon that the defendant used was not fake, but fired blanks, which the victim could not have known. The witness who arrived during the robbery explained that it was the defendant who was managing the situation."

"He was “very hesitant, not sure of himself”, on the contrary declared his lawyer. He left home because his parents didn't want his dog. He has been in a relationship for eight years and is the father of a little girl. They had been separated since he got into drugs, but they are back together."

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