A restaurateur in the port of Toulon, victim of an attempted theft, offered his burglar to help him after prison.

The young man, a 20-year-old homeless man, tried to steal alcohol from him last March.

He was sentenced to six months in prison and incarcerated. 

A restaurateur in the port of Toulon, victim of an attempted theft, proposed to his burglar, a young repeat offender sentenced to six months in prison and imprisoned, that he come back to see him after his detention in order to help him get away with it. get out.

"I challenged him to come and see me. When you want to get out, it's not by breaking and entering. Let him come see me, I will welcome him very gladly and we will do the procedures with Pôle Emploi or the local Mission, "said Philippe Lorentz, 53, owner of The Red Barn pub-restaurant, on Tuesday to AFP, confirming his statements reported by the newspaper

Var-Matin

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"After the hearing, he apologized to me and told me he would come back. After the months in prison, will he make the move? I don't know, I don't know him well enough. . Me, it was not an empty word, "he added.

He had tried to steal alcohol

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: "Ca m ' got annoyed to hear her say to the magistrate that he wanted to get out but that he saw nothing around him to help her and that he was obliged to act like that ".

On March 3, Yann, 20 years old, homeless, 21 convictions to his credit and released from Toulon prison of La Farlède three days previously, had entered his restaurant accompanied by a minor accomplice to try to steal money. alcohol, setting off the alarm and the arrival of the police.

Abandoning the bags full of bottles and fleeing from the rear, he was arrested shortly after.

"He was imprisoned for a remainder of the probation which fell," said his court-appointed lawyer, Morgan Daudé-Maginot, to AFP.