Suspected of having kidnapped a retiree at her home in Bussy-Saint-Martin (Seine-et-Marne) in May 2019, two men appeared last week before the Assize Court of Melun (Seine-et-Marne).
One of them was sentenced to eight years in prison and the other acquitted on Friday, reports
Le Parisien
.
The first has always acknowledged his presence on the scene.
At the hearing, he explained that a stranger had offered them the theft, committed in the presence of the two granddaughters of the victim.
The attack having been badly prepared, he had quickly been overwhelmed by the situation.
Bitten by the victim, he knew he was going to be identified by his DNA.
He would then have waited for the police to come and get him.
"I wanted to be punished for that," he said.
On the other hand, his co-defendant and childhood friend has always maintained his innocence.
Of Laotian origin, he was not the Asian suspect described by the retired, absent, hammered his lawyer.
This sowed doubt among the jurors, also evoking another possible suspect.
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