On Friday March 25, the writer Nathalie Rheims and her spouse were victims of a burglary at their Parisian home in the Madeleine district. Three men, who claim to have acted on the orders of an anonymous sponsor, stolen for 300,000 euros worth of jewelry before being caught in a few minutes by the police. Monday, March 28, they were sentenced to prison.
As reported The Parisianthree individuals including Juanito Chainay, known as Tito – “nephew by marriage of Marc Hornec, a figure of organized crime in the Ile-de-France region” – were therefore tried in the Paris court and convicted of false quality theft. The famous Tito, “already under a warrant of committal for similar facts, in the context of a case still under investigation“, was sentenced to three years in prison and his two accomplices were sentenced to two and one year in prison. They had been arrested at the foot of the building after their burglary with the loot in their hands. newspaper, they were under the surveillance of the national BRI and were traveling in a stolen car.
The case had however been smoothly carried out by the trio, who had met on Friday morning in Aulnay-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis) to prepare for this burglary at the ex-girlfriend of Claude Berri. While they assured during the hearing that they did not have “fact of identification“and have acted”on a whim“, the magistrates were not convinced and it must be said that several overwhelming pieces of evidence played against them: plumbing equipment, false license plates, police card…
Indeed, one of them pretended an intervention in the building obliging him to cut off the water in the apartments, thus leaving the door of the victim’s home open so that an accomplice took the opportunity to steal some objects during this time. A scheme also involving fake police “who show up a few moments later with the meager loot to verify that the crooked craftsman has not stolen the valuables” and “which allows chests to be opened and their contents to be stolen.“
The trio claimed they originally wanted to do a simple burglary but the presence of people in the flat changed that. They then carried out a false quality theft, which means that they committed theft by posing as professionals or representatives of the administration.