"So young, with such a repetition of facts, it is still extremely rare, I had never experienced this," comments the mayor (LR) of Pont-Sainte-Maxence, Arnaud Dumontier. His commune, like that of Senlis and La Chapelle-en-Serval, was the target of serial thefts during the month of March. The four burglars, aged between 15 and 17, attacked both cars and residents' homes in "raids" they carried out over a day or night.
In all, the teenagers would have committed a "twenty burglaries", informs the prosecutor of Senlis, Loïc Abrial. And to develop: "The research brigade of Senlis has carried out a very important work of analysis and cross-checking to achieve this operation of coordinated arrests. " According to a source close to the case, it is in particular the analysis of the images of video surveillance cameras that allowed the identification of the defendants.
A trial on June 6
Arrested this week, the four young people were presented this Thursday before the Senlis prosecutor's office. Already known "unfavourably" to the police, in particular for similar acts, two were placed under judicial supervision and two in pre-trial detention by the liberty and detention judge.
Pending their trial which will take place before the juvenile court on June 6, these burglaries will continue to fuel the increase in thefts in the municipality of Senlis. According to figures from the Ministry of the Interior, this city of 15,128 inhabitants has the highest number of burglaries per capita in the Oise, with an average of 9.3 incidents per 1000,2022 dwellings in <>.
