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Deux-Sèvres: the gendarmerie calls for vigilance after three attempted thefts "by trickery"

2022-01-25T14:10:01.628Z


Two individuals would crisscross the department in a blue vehicle, posing as employees of an electricity company or garbage collection.


The gendarmerie of Deux-Sèvres (79) launched on Twitter a call for vigilance on Tuesday January 25 following reports of attempted thefts "

by trickery

" in various municipalities of the department.

In Parthenay, Moncoutant and Faye-l'Abbesse, two individuals posing as employees of an electricity or garbage collection company attempted to rob the homes of three individuals on Monday.

Their technique is simple: one of them is responsible for retaining the person who welcomes them while the second, under the pretext of going to check an installation, rushes into the house and discreetly steals various objects such as jewellery, easy to conceal. "

In one of the cases reported on Monday, the owner caught the individual in the act and put him on the run

", explains a gendarme from the departmental company of Niort. A well-known

modus operandi

of the police and gendarmerie services, which call for the greatest caution in the face of this kind of canvassing. "

If in doubt, you must immediately dial 17

", insists a gendarme.

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According to several witnesses, the two suspects would be traveling in a blue vehicle and would be in their twenties.

An investigation was opened to find them.

At the beginning of the year, already, similar facts had been observed in the department of Deux-Sèvres.

We had issued a first call for caution and the facts had come to an abrupt end.

But it is clear that it is back

, ”observes the same soldier.

Source: lefigaro

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