“I thought I was walking for the last time” 90 minutes of suffering of the owner of the Porsche Cayenne.

“They told me not to be afraid, they won’t kill me… My eyes were hidden by a sweater, I don’t know where I’m going, or where I am. I thought in my head. I was walking for the last time.”

Complete silence in the courtroom of the criminal court of Toulouse this Tuesday, April 16. At the helm, a 66-year-old man, whose red face and ears show the tension. On March 15, 2023 at dawn, he was surprised by three thieves at his home in Montberon, near Toulouse. They threatened him with knives and screwdrivers before robbing him and leaving with him in his Porsche Cayenne.

A series of 15 robberies

Why? President Carole Mauduit’s question addressed to the two defendants has not yet been answered. Allan, almost 26 years old, and Enzo, 19 years old, say little, in a very wise voice. In this month of March 2023, they participated in endless escapes: fifteen and sixteen robberies. “But the most serious events happened in Montberon that morning,” the prosecutor warns.

Because the owner, an early morning worker, was arrested for “about fifteen minutes” while people searched the house. “They were looking for a safe. I don’t have one.” Once the keys to the Porsche Cayenne were found, they could escape. They took the victim. “45 minutes of terror in the back seat. Thinking, of course, the end. Then his pain when he got out. And then he had to walk another 35 minutes to find help”, insists Me Aurélia Sagansa, his lawyer.

It is impossible to live alone

Anxiety did not set in immediately. The medical examiner did not give him a single day of impotence. “Because in his family, we move on, we work, we forget. Finally we try. Today this man can no longer live alone, he wakes up at night and trembles as soon as the door is opened.” “When I received that call, it brought back those bad memories,” admitted the person involved.

The prosecutor is asking for a sentence of 5 and 4 years against the two. Heavy sentences are “justified in light of the weight of the facts”, which Jessica Guy and Alexandre Martin are fighting against. By faith. “Because the truth started a year because this boy, without a record at that time, has entered the world of work,” argues Me Martin, whose young client seems free. Me Guy is also asking for the confusion of those sentences and those given following a series of robberies.

Allan has been sentenced to 4 years imprisonment including a year of confusion. Enzo at 30 months including six months with confusion. The court sent him back to prison. The victim received €12,500 in damages. Now he will have to forget. At least try.