They are suspected of at least 130 car thefts throughout the Paris region and in the neighboring departments.
Their favorite targets: Peugeot 3008 and 5008 as well as DS7.
But the judicial police (PJ) of Meaux (Seine-et-Marne) came to put an end to their activities, particularly profitable, at the beginning of the week.
The amount of damage is in fact estimated at three million euros.
These six men, aged 20 to 30, will be tried on May 7 by the criminal court of Meaux, for theft and concealment in an organized gang, as part of a delayed appearance.
Pending the hearing, four of them were imprisoned by a judge of freedoms and detention following the requisitions of the Meaux prosecutor's office.
The fifth was placed under judicial supervision and the last - less involved - was sentenced to community service, as part of the plea-guilty.
It was last October that investigators from the criminal group of the PJ noticed an upsurge in thefts of Peugeot 3008, Peugeot 5008 and DS7 in the north of Seine-et-Marne.
Reconciliations are made with the arrest of two men in Seine-Saint-Denis, who were in stolen cars.
Cars were leaving for Africa
Physical surveillance and telephone tapping are linked.
The small team is well organized.
The thefts take place rather at night - up to six misdemeanors in the same raid - and always take place without violence.
No theft at home: cars are stolen on the public highway.
The criminals use a computer to deactivate the alarm and start the vehicle.
During their investigations, the investigators spot two public car parks - in Mitry-Mory and Villeparisis - where the stolen and replanted vehicles are parked ... before leaving for French ports, towards Africa.
There, they can be acquired for 1000 euros!
One of the criminals “accompanied” cars by road to Antwerp (Belgium) and Hamburg (Germany).
It was last Tuesday that the PJ Meaux and the Research and Intervention Brigade (BRI) of Versailles arrested three of the criminals - from Seine-Saint-Denis (Le Bourget and Stains) - in a street in Saint-Thibault -des-Vignes, in Franconville (Val d'Oise) and in Pierrefitte (Seine-Saint-Denis).
The sixth - a resident of Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis) - was detained in connection with another case.
