A couple in their fifties was sentenced to up to seven years in prison in Tarn-et-Garonne on Monday after committing a series of burglaries between 2016 and 2017. The defendants will also have to pay tens of thousands of euros to civil parties.
A couple in their fifties on Monday was sentenced to between four and seven years in prison for a series of burglaries committed between 2016 and 2017, in Tarn-et-Garonne, reports La Dépêch e. According to the gendarmes of the Montauban Research Brigade, the spouses chose their victims by peeling the obituary published in the local press.
Alain Ugal, 55 years old, has been imprisoned since October 2017. Sentenced to eighteen years in prison in 2008, this former robber had admitted twelve facts during the judicial investigation. On Monday, this father of thirteen children confessed to the 21 burglaries.
His wife, Catherine Biau, has been held for thirteen months. This mother of six defends herself from research done by her "gardening activity" . While plans for burglary houses were found on her mobile phone, the defendant explains that she was going to "drop flyers" .
François Debard, a friend of the 38-year-old couple, was also on trial in the criminal court on Monday.
As a result, the court followed the requisitions. Catherine Biau and François Debard were sentenced to four years in prison with continued detention. Alain Dugal is sentenced to seven years in prison. The defendants must also pay tens of thousands of euros to the civil parties.