Toulouse: at 59, already sentenced to 76 years in prison in total, the bail of an additional year
The Toulouse Criminal Court took an interest in the activities of Mario, 59. A thug, a real one, who was arrested in August 2018, driving a stolen car and in whose home we found false papers, automatic weapons and excellent quality cocaine…
“Madam President, everything you say is true but, well, it’s linked to the Paris affair …” From the Saint-Martin-de-Ré power station, Mario assumes. The visio masks his Toulon accent and deprives the court of his weathered face. Justice, this man knows it by heart. Question of habit with his marked taste for all that is not very honest.
His criminal record totals “76 years in prison”, summarizes the president Myriam Viargues. Armed thefts, criminal associations, assassination… So many activities carried out in the organized crime department. Inevitably, when this man moved to Saint-Gaudens for love upon his conditional release from the Lanemezan power station, the specialized police officers kept an eye on him. Especially when he started driving in a stolen Renault RS… “They watched you a lot, a lot,” insists the president smiling. Mario plays the indifferent.
When the PJ police officers decided to corner him one summer night in early August 2018, the BRI men did not regret their intervention. In addition to the stolen car, a false identity card, a false driver’s license, a false passport, two “calibers”, loaded Berreta and CZ automatic pistols were discovered. Plus 30g of cocaine. “95% pure. It’s very rare,” notes the president. Your personal consumption?” No answer. “And also wigs, masks, sets of false license plates, details the magistrate. The perfect robber’s kit!” Mario thinks of something else.
Released from prison in 2031
Surveillance by the police, Toulouse and Paris, followed the frequent trips of this man to Orléans and the capital. Not really tourism. “The Paris affair” repeats the defendant sentenced in July 2021 to six years in prison for “criminal association” with a friend of his, who had been surprised at the Gare d’Austerlitz with an arsenal to make you green with envy a gunsmith. In what but? Mario avoids confidences.
The Toulouse prosecutor’s office has however shown that these two parallel cases were not totally linked. And the prosecutor is asking for three years in prison. The opportunity for Me Alexandre Parra-Bruguière to plead on the merits, “clients like that, you come across one in a lifetime”, he said taking Myrima Viargues to witness, but also on the form. He claims the “necessary” confusion in two files “which intersect and pursue identical crimes”.
Mario was sentenced to 2 years in prison, one year of which coincided with the sentence pronounced in Paris. From now on, he cannot hope to leave his cell before 2031.