A restaurant (illustration).
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The story is unusual.
A restaurateur in the port of Toulon, victim of an attempted theft, suggested to his burglar, a young repeat offender sentenced to six months in prison and imprisoned, that he return to see him after his detention in order to help him s 'get out.
“I challenged him to come see me.
When you want to get out of it, it's not by breaking and entering.
That he comes to see me, I will welcome him very gladly and we will make the formalities with Pôle Emploi or the local Mission ", indicated Philippe Lorentz, 53, owner of the pub-restaurant The Red Barn, on Tuesday to AFP, confirming his statements reported by the newspaper
Var-Matin.
"He apologized to me"
“After the hearing he apologized to me and told me he would come back.
After the months in prison, will he take the step?
I don't know, I don't know him well enough.
Me, it was not an empty word, ”he added.
Patron of the Red Barn since 2018, Philippe Lorentz employs six permanent employees for 80 covers in continuous service, and regularly welcomes young people who are sent to him for training or discovery courses, two of whom have become his employees: got annoyed to hear her tell the magistrate that he wanted to get out but that he saw nothing around him to help her and that he had to act like that.
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