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The band of thieves of the RER B stuck thanks to the video surveillance

2021-01-20T22:16:27.518Z


These four young people aged 16 to 18 were arrested Tuesday after assaulting four people in the RER B, in Paris and in Seine-Saint-De


It is the gang of four who skimmed the RER B for a few days.

The quartet of young people, aged 16 to 18, was referred, this Wednesday, to the courthouses of Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis), Pontoise (Val-d'Oise) and in one of the courts of the 'Oise.

They are suspected of having, since Tuesday, January 12, assaulted four people in the RER B, in Paris and Seine-Saint-Denis, in order to seize their mobile phones.

These young people always used the same method.

At the end of the afternoon, in the trains or on the quays, the thieves circulated in the RER in search of easy prey.

Their technique, as simple as it was effective, was to surround the victims and threaten them before being given a cell phone.

“They attacked two women and two men, between January 12 and 16 at the Châtelet, Saint-Denis, Aulnay-sous-Bois and Villepinte

(Seine-Saint-Denis) stations

.

But none of them suffered a blow, ”explains a source.

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Shocked, the victims filed a complaint at the police station.

Investigators from the regional transport service (SRT Evangile) identified these young people, with the profile of petty delinquents, thanks to video surveillance images, crossed with the telephone and information from their file because the band was already known to their service.

The young criminals were arrested on Tuesday at their home in Seine-Saint-Denis, in the Oise and in the Val-d'Oise, before being placed in police custody in the Parisian premises of the service.

They confessed explaining that they were motivated by the idea of ​​making some money.

Source: leparis

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