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Thieves of tractors arrested in Drôme

2020-07-03T23:45:29.124Z


A team of criminals was dismantled in the Drôme, suspected in particular of having ravaged orchards using tractors stolen then burned, AFP learned Friday from the gendarmerie. Read also: A support march for the farmer who shot a diesel thief Eight people were arrested Monday morning by 80 men from the Departmental Group and placed in police custody for a series of gang robberies organized betwee...


A team of criminals was dismantled in the Drôme, suspected in particular of having ravaged orchards using tractors stolen then burned, AFP learned Friday from the gendarmerie.

Read also: A support march for the farmer who shot a diesel thief

Eight people were arrested Monday morning by 80 men from the Departmental Group and placed in police custody for a series of gang robberies organized between June and December 2019.

Two people were exonerated and two were referred Friday to the judicial court of Valence, one being imprisoned and the other placed under judicial control. The other four suspects will appear on August 20 in connection with a summons by the judicial police officer (COPJ).

The most serious acts of which they are accused were committed on May 26, 2019: several people had then fractured agricultural sheds in Portes-lès-Valence and Beauvallon, stealing four tractors to embark on a nocturnal journey. After having devastated orchards and fields of cultivation in three communes, the vehicles had been burned, for a total damage estimated between 300,000 and 500,000 euros.

Squadron chief Thierry Chopard refers to " gratuitous acts of destruction " on the part of suspects from the community of Travelers and urban cities, aged between 20 and 50 years old. Other thefts had been committed in an animal pound in Valence and municipal workshops in Bourg-les-Valence, as well as in private homes, according to the same source.

Source: lefigaro

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