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New York Post

GRANNY ATTACK
SERIAL ROBBER CHOKES 85-YEAR-OLD BROOKLYN WOMAN IN ELEVATOR
By JAMIE SCHRAM and ANDY GELLER

Last updated: 7:00 pm
August 18, 2008
Posted: 6:20 pm
August 18, 2008

This dramatic video footage shows a serial robber attacking an 85-year-old Brooklyn granny during a fiendish cash grab Thursday night.

The heinous thug is believed to have struck at least nine other times - targeting elderly people as they enter their building or an elevator.

The video shows the monster choking Lillian France into unconsciousness - with her arms flailing - during the horrific attack in an apartment building where she was going to visit a cousin.

She had just come from a bank, and the goon - who may have previously been eyeballing her - escaped with the $900 she had on her, police said.

When the thug was finished with France, he let her drop to the ground like a rag dog, police said.

As France opened the lobby door of the building at 1015 Washington Ave. in Prospect Heights, the thug followed her inside.

He pressed the button for the fifth floor.

When the elevator reached the floor, the goon pounced on France.

He grabbed her from behind and put her in a chokehold.

As she flailed her arms and legs, the heartless thug squeezed until she lost consciousness, the video shows.

He hat fell to the ground and lay at the feet of her limp body.

The fiend fled with her cash - and her cane.

The goon, a man in his 20s to 30s, is suspected of committing nine other fiendish attacks in the 70th and 71st in the Kensington and Flatbush areas.