Stealing is taken up a notch.
A real scourge in Île-de-France, these people pass themselves off as bogus police, water or other public service agents and take advantage of the naivety of the isolated elderly people they visit to rob them of their belongings. more valuable.
Usually they just knock on the door.
But this time, the thief went so far as to make an appointment on the phone before going there.
It was the urban security investigators of Mantes-la-Jolie (Yvelines) who arrested him in flagrante delicto on January 24.
Brought before the court of Versailles, the 27-year-old man, domiciled in Paris, received 12 months in prison, six of which were suspended, with a sentence adjustment.
The investigations begin following a first fact, Tuesday, January 17.
Around 10 a.m., the respondent calls an 83-year-old woman, a resident of Mézières-sur-Seine, and pretends to be an Enedis agent.
While the retiree did not ask for an appointment, her interlocutor forced her to come to her house an hour later.
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On the spot, he leaves a measuring instrument in his hands and walks around the pavilion, claiming to check the electrical outlets.
The next day, the victim realizes that his jewelry has disappeared, including a ring estimated at 1,000 euros.
He criss-crossed the Paris region
His complaint filed, the police immediately seized the file and went back to the perpetrator via his telephone line.
They track the thief to the village of Auteuil-le-Roi, near Thoiry, where he prepares a new coup.
But the presence of a man in the pavilion dissuades him from acting.
Shortly after, he fixed another appointment with an elderly person in Gagny, in Seine-Saint-Denis.
The police go there and set up a surveillance system.
The author is arrested in flagrante delicto as soon as he arrives at the scene.
Placed in police custody and auditioned, the individual denies the facts.
It is the approach of an investigator that finally allows him to be confused, by leading him to speak precisely of the room where the stolen jewels were, when this information had not been mentioned beforehand.
Justice on Thursday found him guilty of false quality theft.