end of the run for the former post office director convicted of robbery
He was the former director of the post offices in Toulouse. The Franco-Algerian Redouane Ikil, on the run since his 2019 sentence to 18 years in prison for the violent robberies of two postal agencies, gave himself up to justice in Agen, to-on Friday from police source.
“He telephoned the Agen Court of Appeal to indicate that he would go to the police station, which he did on Thursday morning,” the source told an AFP correspondent. According to this same source, the 50-year-old man, originally from Pau, said he wanted to go to court to “serve his sentence near his family”.
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He will be imprisoned in Villeneuve-sur-Lot
Incarcerated at the Agen remand center, he must be transferred to the detention center – for long sentences – from Eysses to Villeneuve-sur-Lot.
Acquitted at first instance, Redouane Ikil – former director of one of the two postal agencies attacked – was sentenced on July 6, 2019 by the Assize Court of the Tarn in Albi for “sequestration” and “extortion”.
But he had disappeared just before the verdict at his trial where he appeared free and had since been targeted by an arrest warrant. He had subsequently been arrested in February 2020 in Oran, Algeria. According to Southwest, he was released in June 2021.
The “brain-recruiter” of the robbers
Presented as the “brain-recruiter” of the robbers, according to the prosecution, Redouane Ikil has always denied the facts.
The investigation had not made it possible to identify all the perpetrators of the two robberies whose modus operandi was similar.
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They had stolen 362,000 euros
On March 6, 2012, two hooded men had stolen 362,000 euros from one of the agencies by threatening a postwoman kidnapped in front of her home, beaten and sprayed with flammable liquid.
Then, on May 2, 2013, three men this time sequestered a cash register from La Poste and her family from her home, before again forcing her to open the safe of the agency where she worked.