Kidnapping attempt in Vendée: prison for the victim who shot his attackers

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Faced with the unprecedented increase in attacks against cryptocurrency holders on French territory since the beginning of this year, one more step has just been taken following a kidnapping attempt carried out on October 31 in the town of La Roche-sur-Yon, in Vendée.

Facts reported yesterday by the newspaper Ouest-France which did not yet present all the details of this case, except the fact that the victim - a young man aged 23 - found himself in immediate court for having opened fire on his attackers, who were trying to force access to his home.

According to the evidence presented during his immediate trial on November 4, the events took place late in the afternoon, when the young man ran back to his father's home when he had just escaped an attempted kidnapping, asking him to call the police.

Thirty minutes later, the hooded attackers showed up at the home and tried to force the front door. Inside, the father tries to hold the door closed, while the son goes upstairs and grabs a Glock pistol. He then looks outside and sees a man climbing the balconies of the building to access the accommodation.

During his trial before the La Roche-sur-Yon criminal court, the young man claimed to have completely panicked and decided to shoot solely in order to scare away his attackers. A successful operation since the attackers fled in their stolen car (initially presented as abandoned at the scene), leaving behind a balaclava and a cell phone.

The problem ? This whole scene took place in a small housing development as many families were walking around celebrating the Halloween holiday. And one of the bullets fired during the confrontation would have ended its course above the door of a garage, only a few meters from the children present in the street, even if a witness to the scene speaks of “shots in the direction of the car”.

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A very clearly aggravating circumstance that the defense lawyer does not fail to criticize, explaining that it makes us forget the entire first part of this affair: “a team arrives from the Paris region with balaclavas, sets up a punitive expedition and comes to catch a young man to put him in a trunk in La Roche-sur-Yon”.

In addition, the arrival of the police on the scene was also the occasion for a tense confrontation with the father, who did not want to let the police enter his home. He will finally be placed in police custody like his son, while the firearm is found in a laundry basket in the home.

Machine-translated from French