Le Figaro Nantes
Embarked in stolen cars, these burglars would have acted according to a unique modus operandi, mainly in departments of Pays de la Loire.
Equipped with a screwdriver, they entered houses by attacking windows or glass doors.
Before stealing easily resalable items.
The city of Nantes served as their rear base.
“We are approaching a hundred facts
,” reveals a police source about this
“structured professional network”
unmasked at the start of the week.
Monday February 19, three burglars and a couple of fences were arrested by the burglary group of the SLPJ (local judicial police service), assisted by the surveillance and arrest brigade, during a coordinated operation preceded by several months of work.
Concretely,
“research, shadowing, surveillance with all the means that one can imagine to uncover the network, monitor it and follow it since it was necessary to establish the roles of each person” were
necessary, details someone close to the investigation.
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“Place order”
At the beginning of summer 2023, an individual arrested with a stolen object declared that he had to return it to his receiver.
This element was the starting point for the investigators.
Everything accelerated at the beginning of February.
Finally, it was in La Dominelais, in Ille-et-Vilaine, that the three alleged criminals were caught red-handed, after passing through Derval and Jans, two towns in Loire-Atlantique located on the road leading to Rennes.
“They went out, they hit, they “re-entered”.
They went out, they hit…”
.
At the same time, the couple of receivers - the man had already been convicted for similar offenses and the woman was not unknown - were arrested in Nantes.
Searches and searches made it possible to find some objects, but not all.
Like Louis d’Or.
“The fence gave real instructions on what things to steal. There was an order placement and training
, continues the well-informed police officer.
We had to nab everything that was easily resalable.
Typically, the watch resells very well.
Traceable trucks, like computer equipment, they avoid.”
Of the five held in police custody, aged 24 to 37, three were placed in pre-trial detention, and two are free, including one under judicial supervision.
The investigation should continue its course, and shed light on the remaining gray areas.