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Car thefts: 31 members of a criminal organization arrested in France

10/14/2022, 5:47:24 PM


The dragnet mobilized more than 200 gendarmes in Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Lille. The organization provided thieves with a digital application to steal vehicles without breaking and entering.

Thirty-one people, suspected of belonging to a criminal network facilitating car thefts, were arrested Monday, October 10 throughout France, AFP learned Friday, October 14 from the gendarmerie.

The operation, which mobilized more than 200 gendarmes in Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Lille, made it possible to dismantle an organization which had made available to "

more than 200

" vehicle thieves "

a digital solution allowing them to steal them without break

-in, ”added the gendarmerie in a press release.