Jean-Jacques Naudo
Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Born | 8 February 1959 Perpignan, France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 16 July 2026 (aged 67) Perpignan, France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Five-eighth | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jean-Jacques Naudo (French: [ʒˈɑ̃-ʒˈak nodˈo]; 8 February 1959 – 16 July 2026) was a French rugby league footballer who played as a five-eighth.[1]
Biography
[edit]Born in Perpignan on 8 February 1959, Naudo began playing rugby at the age of six and first worked in a butchery.[2] He entered the French Rugby League Championship, first playing for Baroudeurs de Pia XIII and subsequently for XIII Catalan.[3] He also made appearances for the France U-19 and U-24 national teams. On 25 March 1979, he scored two tries in a 22–5 win over England.[4] For the U-24 team, he played in two matches, logging two total points.[5] In 1985, he won both the Coupe de France Lord Derby and the French Rugby League Championship with XIII Catalan.[6] After his retirement in the early 1990s, he went into bankruptcy while taking over his father's business, which led him to establish a restaurant called Tio Pepe alongside former rugby player Philippe Fernandez and footballer Edson Carpeggiani.[7]
In August 1996, Naudo led a heist on an Air Inter flight arriving in Perpignan from Paris Orly Airport; in two minutes and 30 seconds, his group entered the cargo hold and stole 4.2 million francs, the equivalent of 670,000 euros.[8][9] This totaled 27 kilograms of bank notes.[10] In May 1997, he took part in a safe robbery in Courbevoie, stealing 10 million francs. While fleeing north, he was found to be in possession of a Kalashnikov RPK; he was already a suspect in the previous year's airplane heist.[11] On 26 December 2000, he stormed a Brink's armored truck loaded with gift receipts from major department stores and Disneyland Paris, stealing 41 million francs. The following day, after a witness reported a robbery in Paray-Vieille-Poste, the group, nicknamed the "Dream Team", were arrested while sleeping on top of 16.5 million francs.[12][13] After a four-hour flight to Spain, he was arrested by French police.[14] Due to his connections with a string of robberies, prosecutors sought a 13-year prison sentence; he served two years on parole.[10] In 2006, he was charged in connection with a separate robbery in Gentilly and sentenced to 15 years in prison.[15] However, in 2009, he won a case against the French prosecutors at the European Court of Human Rights, which deemed that his sentence, in combination with six years of pre-trial detention, were too harsh.[7] In October 2014, the prosecution dismissed the case against him for the Air Inter heist despite matching fingerprints at the scene.[16]
After the prosecution ended, he was honored by XIII Catalan for their 80th anniversary as a club.[17]
Jean-Jacques Naudo died on 16 July 2026, at the age of 67.[18]
References
[edit]- ↑ Bouldoire, Thierry (16 July 2026). "Carnet noir : Figure de Perpignan et du rugby à XIII, Jean-Jacques Naudo est décédé". L'Indépendant (in French). Retrieved 17 July 2026.
- ↑ Tourancheau, Patricia (24 November 2006). "As du rugby, de la photo... et du braquage". Libération (in French). Retrieved 17 July 2026.
- ↑ "EURO 2018 : Les anciens de 78 se retrouvent!". French Rugby Federation (in French). 9 November 2018. Retrieved 17 July 2026.
- ↑ "Philippe Fourquet : quatre dates clé". French Rugby Federation (in French). 3 August 2020. Retrieved 17 July 2026.
- ↑ "Jean-Jacques Naudo". Rugby League Record Keepers Club.
- ↑ Onteniente, Bruno (6 March 2022). "Perpignan : décès de l'ancien président du XIII Catalan". L'Indépendant (in French). Retrieved 17 July 2026.
- 1 2 Rouarch, Marie (16 July 2026). "Ancien braqueur, patron de bar et international de rugby à XIII, Jean-Jacques Naudo est décédé". Ici (in French). Retrieved 17 July 2026.
- ↑ Kemmet, Brendan (20 July 2017). "Casses du siècle : en 1996, le braquage d'un avion à Perpignan". Le Parisien (in French). Retrieved 17 July 2026.
- ↑ Johannes, Franck; Garmirian, Marc (14 August 1996). "Un Airbus braqué à l'atterrissage". Libération (in French). Retrieved 17 July 2026.
- 1 2 Moysset, Laure (25 October 2014). "Braquage de l'Airbus à Perpignan : J.-J. Naudo blanchi 18 ans après". L'Indépendant (in French). Retrieved 17 July 2026.
- ↑ Kemmet, Brendan (9 December 2006). "Quand la BRB ressort ses vieux dossiers". Le Parisien (in French). Retrieved 17 July 2026.
- ↑ Suc, Matthieu (24 January 2014). "Bruno Celini, mort d'un braqueur de la Dream Team". Lyon Capitale (in French). Retrieved 17 July 2026.
- ↑ Follorou, Jacques (22 November 2006). "Les accusés du braquage de Gentilly font partie des grands du banditisme". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 17 July 2026.
- ↑ Kemmet, Brendan; Bouchet, Stéphane (30 December 2000). "Le roi des braqueurs interpellé en Espagne". Le Parisien (in French). Retrieved 17 July 2026.
- ↑ Kemmet, Brendan (16 December 2006). "Douze ans de prison requis contre Ferrara et Menconi". Le Parisien (in French). Retrieved 17 July 2026.
- ↑ Tourancheau, Patricia (26 October 2014). "Airbus braqué : non-lieu pour la «Fripouille»". Libération (in French). Retrieved 17 July 2026.
- ↑ Mehr, Martial (22 June 2014). "80 ans du XIII Catalan: Le jour des monstres sacrés honorés à Perpignan". L'Indépendant (in French). Retrieved 17 July 2026.
- ↑ "Communiqué du club – Jean-Jacques Naudo". Catalans Dragons (in French). 16 July 2026. Retrieved 17 July 2026.