Unheard of at the Musée de la Grande Guerre du Pays de Meaux since its opening on November 11, 2011: the site was the target of a burglary on Friday August 19 around 10 p.m.
Even more surprising: the authors are a boy and a girl aged fifteen and a half!
Using a crowbar in particular, they managed to break into the steel and glass building which covers 7,000 m2.
But the alarm system goes off.
The alert is given.
According to the deputy prosecutor at the Meaux prosecutor's office, Marc Lifchitz, "national and municipal police arrive very quickly on the scene and come across the duo in flagrante delicto".
“They had just damaged a window and seized about twenty weapons of all types, pistols, bladed weapons, and the equipment that goes with them, belts, etc.
” Pieces that are among the 3,300 exhibits.
The two young thugs are immediately arrested and placed in police custody.
The weapons were found intact.
No doubt is possible about the perpetrators because the CCTV cameras also played their role.
The police officers of the Departmental Security are in charge of the investigation.
"It's not a small file"
As of this Saturday afternoon, the mayor of Meaux Jean-François Copé (LR) filed a complaint as president of the Community of communes of the Pays de Meaux.
"It's not a small file.
There is intrusion into a public building, desecration of a major place of memory and attempted theft of weapons.
It will be followed in high places, ”he comments, very upset.
On Saturday morning, he brought together various service directors to "very quickly repair the degraded window and strengthen the security of the most vulnerable access point, but where they had to use a crowbar all the same" .
What did these two nickel-plated feet have in mind?
Impossible to use them because the weapons exhibited in the museum are all neutralized.
Moreover, according to the curator, these pieces are all numbered and therefore impossible to resell to collectors at auction.
But the black market and under-the-counter sales do exist…
Very well known to the police, the boy from Combs-la-Ville had previously run away from a closed educational center and there was placed in an open home in the area... On the other hand, his accomplice and girlfriend from southern Seine- et-Marne is little known to the police.
Only the results of their audition will reveal what these budding Bonnie & Clyde had planned.
This Saturday evening, their custody for attempted robbery in an organized gang was extended.
“We take the case to the extent of its seriousness”, assures the deputy prosecutor of Meaux.
