Toulouse: she surprises a burglar at home and is violent just like her neighbors who came to help her
A young woman has surprised a burglar in her apartment in Toulouse. She wanted to intervene and she received blows in exchange. Neighbors will tend to help him but they too will be abused. The thief was eventually found thanks to his DNA.
The violent burglar was not difficult to find, he was already serving a sentence for theft at the remand center. Last January, a young woman aged 28 returned home accompanied by a friend in the François-Verdier district in Toulouse. Once the floors have climbed, she notices that her lock has been forced open and that the door is ajar. She decides with the one accompanying her to enter the apartment. The duo come face to face with an individual robbing the apartment. The victim explains that she received a blow to the face. She also tries to scream for help. Determined not to let go, this young woman even clings to the burglar. This last debate to flee and pushes her on several occasions. A neighbor is nearby trying to help him but he too is beaten. He still manages to put him to flight.
The thief escapes and takes some jewelry with him, but forgets to take the bag he had filled with objects. The police called on the scene carry out the records of traces and clues in this burglarized apartment. And on the ground, near the scene, investigators find a mask that the burglar lost while fleeing. DNA is thus found. And the DNA profile matches that of a 36-year-old man, currently incarcerated for another burglary.
“I couldn’t sleep alone”
This Thursday, December 9, he was extracted to be heard in this case. At the hearing, he admitted in front of the investigators of the right bank urban security, the burglary unit in charge of the case, the break-in but not the violence. The next day, the defendant was tried in immediate appearance by the Toulouse Criminal Court.
In an irregular situation, the defendant in the locker bearing six mentions, the last of which was imprisonment for burglary, explained that he had broken the door with a screwdriver and an adjustable wrench. “I was surprised to hear people, when I found myself in front of them, I just asked to leave and they refused so I pushed them away,” he explains in court.
Very moved and still in shock from this event, the victim testified at the bar. “It had been barely a month since I moved here. I couldn’t sleep on my own for more than a week after the fact and had to take medication to calm my anxieties,” she says. to magistrates.
The defendant was finally sentenced to 18 months in prison, which therefore adds to the sentence he is already serving.