Two seniors tied up and beaten for an hour and a half

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Monique and Benoit Daigle did not let the fear of the first time the push to move, but they still keep their doors locked and have an alarm system installed.

Amélie St-Yves

Sunday, February 4, 2018 01:00

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WARWICK | Two elders who were tied up, beaten and threatened by robbers five years ago hoping that one of them makes the prison and the other two are finally arrested.

On the evening of January 28, 2013, Monique and Benoit Daigle, then aged 77 and 79 years, believed their last hour arrived when two men who spoke in creole are entered in by the gate-

window débarrée of their home in Warwick, located in the Centre-du-Québec.

The two masked men sought a sum of $ 100,000, but the couple only had 180 $ in the house.

Eight children

The attackers tied up the elders to chairs with masking tape, both at the level of the wrists that of the body and legs. They toppled the chairs to the ground and hit their victims to tell them where they hid the money.

They broke everything they could and spoke in creole between them, which made the situation even more stressful for the couple.

“I had more fear for her than for me, even if I ate a twenty punches,” says Benoît Daigle.

Monique Daigle was afraid of dying when she was on the ground, and a heavy table collapsed on it.

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Thieves have broken during the home invasion of their house in Warwick.

Released

“I thought of my eight children, one by one. I told myself that I would bring with me, ” she says.

She was finally able to get rid of the links when the two men left with the bank cards of the couple.

And then she rescued her husband before going to call for help at a neighbor’s home.

“We obeyed like children. We had no choice, ” says Monique Daigle.

On the 24th of January last, Jonathan Paolucci Fletcher, 26, was found guilty of break and enter, forcible confinement, mischief and threats.

He waited in the car for about 90 minutes while the two people fighting two elderly people and broke everything in the house.

The two men who assaulted the elderly have never been arrested. Paolucci Fletcher told the judge that he did not know the names of his two associates as they worked by the nickname, ” the judge Jacques Lacoursière has not believed. They were of haitian origin, according to Paolucci Fletcher.

Monique and Benoit Daigle hope at least that it will be of the prison, and them that are, still today, more fearful.

Resilience

Five years later, the two seniors have an alarm system and keep all the doors locked, but can’t help looking at the windows to watch, almost every night.

Friends have suggested moving out, but they did not let the fear invade at this point, even if the nightmares had lasted for two years.

“To have been alone, I would not have stayed here. But given that it is both, it is correct. We support “, says Monique Daigle.

Jonathan Paolucci Fletcher will be back in court on April 20 for his trouble.