SOLIDARITY – A restaurant owner offered to help the young thief who tried to rob him after his stay in prison
The story is unusual. A restaurateur from the port of Toulon, victim of an attempted theft, proposed to his burglar, a young repeat offender sentenced to six months prison and incarcerated, That he return to see him after his detention in order to help him out.
“I challenged him to come see me. When you want to get out of it, it’s not by breaking and entering. That he comes to see me, I will welcome him very gladly and we will make the formalities with Pôle Emploi or the local Mission “, indicated Philippe Lorentz, 53, owner of the pub-restaurant The Red Barn, on Tuesday to AFP, confirming his statements reported by the newspaper Var-Matin.
“He apologized to me”
“After the hearing he apologized to me and told me he would come back. After the months in prison, will he take the step? I don’t know, I don’t know him well enough. Me, it was not an empty word, ”he added.
Patron of the Red Barn since 2018, Philippe Lorentz employs six permanent employees for 80 covers in continuous service, and regularly welcomes young people who are sent to him for training or discovery (…) Read more on 20minutes
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