Four members of a security company will be tried on June 24 for the theft of 50,000 surgical masks in August, in Amiens, in a room they were responsible for monitoring, announced the prosecution Thursday April 29.
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In this case, the Regional Council of Hauts de France had filed a complaint in September 2020 "
following the discovery of the theft of 50,000 surgical masks, which were packaged in 25 boxes and stored in a room located in Amiens
", indicates Alexandre de Bosschère, public prosecutor in a press release. This week, four men, all members of a security company responsible for guarding this site, were taken into custody as part of the investigation. Among them is the manager of the company, said Alexandre de Bosschère. "
Partial confessions collected during the hearings
" have shown that two employees of the company stole the boxes of masks during a round of surveillance and then resold them. The masks were then "
sold on markets
”.
The other two men are implicated for complicity in this theft.
They will be tried on June 24 for theft in meeting and complicity.
Three of them were until now unknown to justice, the fourth was known but "
for old facts
", indicated the prosecutor.
