Echoing the Toni Musulin affair, his hijacking of an armored van caused a stir.
The court of Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis) sentenced, this Thursday, to ten years in prison a conveyor of funds for the theft of 3.1 million euros in 2019 in Seine-Saint-Denis.
After four days of trial and three hours of deliberation, the judges found Adrien Derbez, 30, guilty of aggravated robbery.
Deeming him "rooted in organized crime", the court added to his sentence a two-thirds security period.
He also sentenced him to a fine of 300,000 euros.
Much of the loot stolen from the Loomis Company has never been found.
In its indictment, the prosecution had considered that Adrien Derbez was not just a simple “windfall offender” but had set up for this theft an organization falling within the scope of “robbery”.
He had requested 14 years in prison against him.
One million euros found in a hideout in Amiens
On February 11, 2019, the cash courier, driving an armored van, lost company with his two colleagues while they were inside a Western Union branch in Aubervilliers to deposit funds there.
The vehicle is quickly discovered, doors open, empty.
On the other hand, no trace of the driver or of the 3.1 million euros contained in bags.
Guided by anonymous information, the police arrested Adrien Derbez after barely a day on the run in a hideout in Amiens, his hometown.
On site, they discover nearly a million euros in wads of banknotes, as well as three pairs of gloves, balaclavas, caps, work clothes, a roll of industrial cellophane...
A “fiasco”
His childhood friend Mickaël Correia Moreira, whose DNA was found on a balaclava, was sentenced to six years in prison and a fine of 100,000 euros for complicity in theft.
At the hearing, this bus driver claimed to have been approached by Adrien Derbez only after the theft and to have helped him "hard", "out of friendship".
A three-year prison sentence was pronounced against his brother Francisco Correia Moreira, prosecuted for concealment.
Two women were also sentenced to three years in prison and eighteen months in prison, nine of which were suspended, also for concealment.
A sixth protagonist Simon D., manager of a sports hall and alleged accomplice of Adrien Derbez, will be tried separately in October.
At his trial, Adrien Derbez, round face embellished with a beard with red highlights, a false air of a good child, was laconic on the facts.
“Transporting millions every day to earn 1,800 euros per month… I lived in Aubervilliers, with rats, cockroaches.
Inevitably, there are temptations, ”he explained.
Notably embarrassed when the audience discussed his personal and family history, this enthusiast of gangster films and books – who dreamed of writing one about his story – called his theft a “fiasco”.
According to him, he has not a penny left.
In this company, the Lyonnais fund carrier Toni Musulin, sentenced in 2010 for the theft of 11.6 million euros, was "an almost imposed figure, an almost totemic reference" for Adrien Derbez, estimated the prosecutor Marc -Antoine Moreau in his indictment.
On the contrary, his defense endeavored to humanize him by depicting an “emotional” young man with “great naivety”, far removed from the figure of the big bosses.
“The facts, yes, they prepared them.
But he prepared them badly, because he is not a thug, ”said his lawyer Pauline Baudu-Armand, noting that the investigators were able to trace his trail thanks to amateur errors.
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