Overview
- The Cour d’assises de Lot‑et‑Garonne delivered unanimous guilty verdicts on September 24 for all four men in the armed home‑jacking of a British couple in Hautefage‑la‑Tour.
- Sentences were individualized: Tarik El Malouani received 14 years, Fouad Faize 12 years, Ylsem Adib 10 years as a recidivist, and Abderrahmane Gomri 4 years with immediate detention.
- The public prosecutor had requested stiffer terms of 17 years for the principal actors and 7 years for the accomplice, but jurors imposed lighter penalties.
- Court testimony recounted two masked attackers armed with knives who assaulted the victims and stole jewelry, leaving the husband with lasting injury to his left hand and the couple deeply traumatized.
- Jurors deliberated about six hours after a week of hearings marked by contradictory versions and defense claims that roles were overstated or falsely attributed.