It is a case in two stages which had its epilogue on Monday. It all starts on Saturday evening, shortly before the closing of Le Moulin Robert bakery in Saint-Bonnet-le-Château. A man armed with a knife with a 15 centimeter blade and his face covered with a black surgical mask, burst into the establishment located in the center of the village. He threatens the two saleswomen and has the contents of the cash box handed over to him before fleeing. The amount of the damage is not known at this time.
Entrusted to the Montbrison research brigade, with the gendarmes of Saint-Bonnet-le-Château in reinforcement, an investigation is opened while the technicians of the criminal identification of Saint-Etienne carried out the usual samples.
The young saleswoman transported to the CHU
But the case rebounds this Monday around 3:30 p.m. The same individual, still armed with his knife and masked, presents himself again in the bakery. He again threatens a young saleswoman to get the cash back. But for reasons that the investigation will have to determine, the robber will violently hit the young woman in the face. It was the cries of the latter that alerted the secretary general of the town hall, as well as a client who intervened to put an end to this aggression.
Also nearby, the gendarmes of Saint-Bonnet-le-Château were quickly able to arrest the individual, a 37-year-old resident of the town and known to their service. He is currently in custody at their premises.
Injured and in a state of shock, the young saleswoman was transported by the firefighters to the Saint-Etienne University Hospital.