The first victim, a 29-year-old man, was attacked on Monday May 2 around 9:15 p.m. in the suburbs of Orléans. Beaten and threatened with a blade to the throat, the young man thought he was going to an appointment with a young woman. His three hooded assailants smashed the windows of his car and stole “personal items”.
Three 16-year-old minors have been indicted and imprisoned for armed robberies committed on two men who thought they were going to an appointment with a woman they met on social networks, the Orleans prosecutor’s office announced. The first victim, a 29-year-old man, was assaulted on Monday, May 2 around 9:15 p.m., in Saint-Jean-le-Blanc, in the suburbs of Orléans. Beaten and threatened with a blade to the throat, the young man thought he was going to an appointment with a young woman. His three hooded attackers smashed the windows of his car and stole “personal items” before the victim fled and alerted the police, according to a press release from the prosecution.
Injured in one hand, the young man was prescribed 45 days of temporary incapacity for work (ITT), with a “risk of permanent disability”, according to the prosecution.
They face 20 years in prison.
Two days later, a 36-year-old man was attacked in the same circumstances. Gassed then injured with a stab in the armpit while waiting in his car, the man was robbed of 80 euros and his car was damaged with baseball bats and its flat tires . He managed to flee and alert the police, who arrested the three 16-year-old suspects “a few minutes later”.
Placed in police custody, the three teenagers were indicted as part of an open judicial investigation for theft with the use or threat of a weapon and willful damage to private property. Incarcerated, they incur 20 years of criminal imprisonment.