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While the couple slept, four people entered their homes in Komb la Ville near Paris on Sunday around 0:30 pm. local time (1 hour and 30 minutes in Lithuania). The criminals beat them, tied them with electric cables and took them out collecting items.
Dominique Tapie’s wife managed to free herself and run to the neighbor’s house, where she called the police. The woman suffered minor injuries to her face and was taken to hospital for an examination.
“It feels good,” Rodolphe Tapie, Tapie’s grandson, told AFP.
During the robbery, the criminals “pulled her hair because she wanted to know where the jewels are,” Guy Geoffroy, mayor of Komb la Ville, told AFP.
“But of course there were no jewels there, and when they were not found, the violence only escalated,” he added.
Jewelry and Rolex
During the incident, Tapie, 78, was hit on the head with a stick, AFP prosecutor Beatrice Angelelli reported, but the businessman refused to receive medical help.
Bernard Tapie
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“My grandfather refused to go [į ligoninę]Tapie said. – He’s depressed, very tired. He was sitting in a chair when they hit him with a stick. “
The thieves broke into Tapie’s house, the huge Moulin de Breuil, through a ground-floor window without the guards noticing.
According to a source familiar with the investigation, the criminals fled and stole two watches, including a Rolex device, earrings, several bracelets and a ring.
Tapie is a former delegate from the Socialist Party who has managed to build a sports and media empire with his own hands, but has later faced a series of legal problems.
Early in his career, he became rich by taking control of bankrupt companies, and he did not shy away from flaunting his fortunes, such as the 72-foot-long yacht and his soccer club.
He is suspected of contributing to the direction of the match in France’s main soccer league.
In 1992, he briefly served as Minister of Urban Development in the government of President Francois Mitterrand.
A chain of legal problems
Tapie has been found guilty in many cases of corruption, tax fraud, and misuse of corporate assets. He was also behind bars for five months and lost the right to vote in any election in France.
After being released from prison in 1997, Tapie tested his strength in the entertainment business and in 2012 became a media mogul, taking control of the daily La Provence and other newspapers in the south of France.
Tapie has not been calm for more than a decade in a fraud case involving highly controversial € 400 million that was awarded to him by state arbitration. compensation, which surprised France.
The panel of judges ruled that Tapie had been the victim of fraud when he sold his Adidas shares in 1993 to French state bank Credit Lyonnais, which was later found to be undervalued by the sportswear brand.
“Determined” to participate in the trial
The then Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, who now heads the European Central Bank, is also involved in this case.
Ch. Lagarde’s role in the deal has led to suspicions that his former boss, former president Nicolas Sarkozy, whose candidacy he supported in the 2007 elections, was favorable to the businessman. Sarkozy himself categorically denies such accusations.
Last fall, Tapie’s fraud case was postponed due to deteriorating stomach and esophageal cancer.
The trial will resume in May and Tapie is “determined” to attend, his attorney said.
Police are investigating Sunday’s incident as a robbery and violent kidnapping, another source familiar with the course of the investigation told AFP.
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