The irruption of the Choisy-le-Roi police officers must not have gone unnoticed in the peaceful villages of Mandres-les-Roses and Périgny-sur-Yerres.
It was there, from the bucolic Briard plateau, that a 25-year-old firearms enthusiast acted, who illegally resold hundreds of firearms ammunition, via the social network Telegram.
The young suspect, a delivery man with no history who lives with his parents in Périgny, took advantage of his sports shooting license to buy cartridges and ammunition of all calibers in a gunstore: 22 long rifle, 9 mm, cartridges for hunting rifles. …
Thanks to several conversation loops on Telegram, he found customers to resell them to.
He often met them near a fast food restaurant in Mandres-les-Roses.
But at the beginning of February, around 10:45 p.m., while he met a Parisian client there, police officers from the Choisy-le-Roi anti-crime brigade were also waiting for him.
Weapons, cartridges, explosives…
They found the young man in possession of 500 22 long rifle cartridges.
His client came with nearly 5,000 euros in cash.
“That’s so much ammunition intended for criminals which finds itself withdrawn from the black market,” rejoices a source close to the case.
A drop of water in an ocean of contentious transactions.
Because these Telegram loops, of which we were able to consult several exchanges, are the Ali Baba's cave of the perfect delinquent.
They sell weapons of all kinds, cartridges, bulletproof vests, etc. You can even buy explosives there.
All at relatively affordable prices.
Count 900 euros for 2,000 rounds of ammunition for a semi-automatic rifle, for example.
“They use Telegram as the Good Corner of banditry,” whispers a police officer, annoyed.
The suspect from Périgny went further by manufacturing parts of handguns himself using his 3D printer.
The investigators, who worked in consultation with the Boissy-Saint-Léger police station, discovered at his home a 9 mm revolver, a BB pistol, cartridges, a magazine...
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Placed in police custody, he admitted the facts and was brought before the courts for possession, carrying and transfer of weapons or ammunition.
He was sentenced to “150 hours of community service, six months of imprisonment in the event of non-compliance” and was “banned from holding or carrying a weapon for five years”, indicates the Créteil public prosecutor's office.