Five men were sentenced to terms ranging from two to five years in prison by the Béziers criminal court.
They were prosecuted for thefts with violence and in meetings.
During the month of August, four people were victims of snatching a few days apart in Béziers, Cers, a town in Hérault, and Coursan, near Narbonne, in Aude.
The victims all had in common that they had previously played in the casino before returning home.
Assaulted on their return from the casino
The first three had spent the evening at the Valras-Plage casino on August 19 and 24.
The fourth, assaulted after being gassed, was returning from the Gruissan casino.
The investigation determined that their attackers spotted them at the casino, before attacking them once they were out of sight.
The sentences were modulated according to their involvement and their criminal record.
For four of them, they are accompanied by probation, with the obligation to compensate the victims.
The defendants risked a ten-year prison sentence for thefts with violence and in meetings resulting in ITTs of less than eight days.
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