But, says Pierre, it also enables the startup to stick to its "anything you want, delivered in minutes" promise without burning too much cash.
According to Pierre, "It alienated many stakeholders, created rifts and divisions among them and showed the disconnect between stakeholders, the THA, TDC and central government in Port-of-Spain.
"If the people we were working with saw that we didn't agree," says Jean-Pierre, "it would be difficult for them, and for us".
The St. Pierres, it turned out, had anticipated the ban on Chinese munitions and switched to Russian sources more than a year before the raid.
But, Jean-Pierre speculates, "it could be the Seraing in our heads doesn't actually have that much to do with the real one.
Nixon and his cohorts worked to ensure that, as St. Pierre puts it, "Regardless of your political affiliation, if you were a Vietnam War protestor, ergo, you were a pot smoking, non-working hippie".
Haeberlin and his brother, Jean-Pierre, rebuilt it in 1950, renaming it L'Auberge de l'Ill.
Ms. St-Pierre says it will feature at least 1,000 artists and use the city's buildings as a backdrop as it moves from one area to another.
The hi-tech heists are performed to the nerve-jangling music of the German electronic group Tangerine Dream, and although Mann acknowledges the influence of the French crime movies of Jean-Pierre Melville, it is the advice, the influence and the presence of real lawmen and crooks that provide the driving force.
When questioned as to how the dirt landed on her husband's back, Antoine-Pierre explained, "it must have bounced off the ground".
Pierre claims that it was his deranged accomplice, but Victor isn't having it.
