Elderly people have become prime targets for criminals.
An 85-year-old man had the bitter experience of this on Friday evening.
It was around 10 p.m. when three men broke into his home, located on avenue Danielle-Casanova, in Saint-Gratien.
Kept on the ground, the octogenarian, who lives alone, received blows to the head while the thieves stole a small sealed safe from him.
This contained jewelry and luxury watches, with a total value of 10,000 euros.
The trio then fled before being reported by the Urban Supervision Center (CSU) of the Plaine Vallée urban community leaving the residence towards the station.
Three teenagers aged 17, wearing gloves and hoods and matching the descriptions, were then arrested by the police around 10:30 p.m., boulevard du lac, in Enghien-les-Bains.
Two of them had a judicial ban from being on public roads between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.
After a search, the safe was not found.
Beyond the physical after-effects, this type of violent home-jacking is particularly traumatic for the victims and causes numerous psychological after-effects.
Furthermore, the police have noted for several weeks in Île-de-France and Val-d'Oise an increase in thefts by false identity targeting elderly people, with individuals posing as false EDF agents. , and even sometimes for fake police officers or gendarmes.