She pleaded amnesia and her lawyer said on her behalf that she was remorseful.
La Dépêche du Midi
tells in its edition of the day the incredible trial, Tuesday in Montauban, of an octogenarian living in the Tarn-et-Garonne who abused the naivety of her neighbor.
The case revolves around an iron cookie tin, in which he kept his life savings: 36,300 euros in cash and his late wife's jewelry.
During the summer of 2020, the old man is about to be hospitalized.
Fearing a burglary in his absence, he entrusts his "treasure" to his neighbour.
A very misplaced confidence since on his return, the octogenarian rather well off in life, refused to return it to him.
She even went so far as to call the gendarmes one day when he came to claim her due.
Unsuccessful search
The investigation lasted months, required an unsuccessful search, bank requisitions.
And it was only after receiving the summons to her trial for "breach of trust" that the defendant agreed to bring back to the gendarmerie the sum of 29,300 euros, found, she said, in a cupboard of his basement.
According to the regional daily, in addition to the return of the loot, the court sentenced the indelicate octogenarian to pay 2,100 euros in moral damage to his neighbor and to pay a fine of 3,000 euros, including 1,500 suspended.
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