This criminal bought the phones stolen by Moroccan minors.
A 23-year-old Senegalese receiver was arrested on Wednesday in Pré-Saint-Gervais (Seine-Saint-Denis) in possession of 184 stolen cell phones.
Investigators from the regional transport security (SRT) concealment group have been working on this case since last May following a complaint from a person who had his device torn off in transport.
There is no thief without a receiver
"We traced the trace of the mobile and we discovered that a good number of unaccompanied minors (unaccompanied minors) who attack travelers in the Paris metro and in the RER came to sell their loot to this man", specifies a source close to the case. According to the findings of a police commissioner, it is daily that these gangs of minors of Moroccan origin scour the cars and corridors of transport in Ile-de-France and attack adolescents and women to steal their property. Certain sectors of Seine-Saint-Denis are of great concern and teams of field police officers are stationed there daily to surprise thieves in the act. "We created this group to fight against receivers because there is no thief without a receiver," said an official.
He exports stolen phones to Senegal
The police housed this young man, very unfavorably known to the police services in this town near Paris.
At 6 a.m., he was arrested and taken into custody in the Parisian Sûreté premises.
During the hearings, he confessed.
The receiver explained that he exports the stolen phones to Senegal where demand is high.
Thursday evening, the suspect was to be referred to the Bobigny prosecutor's office, which will decide on the follow-up to this case.