Burglar caught in the allotment - police caught him in front of the TV

Created: 05/17/2022Updated: 05/17/2022, 16:05

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A 33-year-old burglar was caught red-handed in a Braunschweig allotment garden.

He had made himself comfortable in front of a television set.

Braunschweig – In Braunschweig, the police caught a burglar red-handed in an allotment garden – in front of a television set.

The suspect without a permanent address had made himself comfortable in a gazebo on Tuesday night, the police said on Tuesday.

The 33-year-old smashed a window and broke into the gazebo.

There he watched TV and fried a fish he had previously stolen from another gazebo.

An allotment gardener spotted him and alerted the police.

The man is known to the police for similar offenses and is due to be brought before the magistrate on Wednesday.

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