Toulouse. Money or beers? Here’s why the convenience store robber shouldn’t have chosen
Through Laurent Derne
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It was in May 2021, Lalande district, in Toulouse. UN 45 year old man crosses the threshold of a food store and seems seized with a sudden passion for the fermented hop section.
He lets other customers pass
His choice carefully made, he goes to the cash desks with his beers. Gentleman to the end of the capsules, he lets other customers of the supermarket pass in front of him in fashion. Go ahead, I have all my time …
But once alone in the store with the cashier, Mister Hyde revealed his true nature. One hand behind the back, resting on the butt of a handgun (imaginary?), his then sweet voice became colder and more metallic: “Go all out or I’ll kill you!” He repeated this threat on several occasions, ”develops a police source.
A braquo at 300 euros
The cashier complies and the thug leaves with a bag filled with 300 euros in cash, leaving behind him the pack which had served as a pretext. Called to the rescue, the Departmental Service technical and scientific police a finished by isolated a DNA.
The profile of the robber immediately matched that of a man known to the police. A quadra who also had death threats from firefighters intervened to help him in June.
CCTV and DNA
Confronted with the evidence and images of video surveillance, he admitted the facts. Referred to the public prosecutor’s office at the end of his police custody, he was left free under judicial control. While waiting for his next summons to court.
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