Le Figaro Nantes
Murderers always return to the scene of the crime, the saying goes.
The maxims are less verbose about burglars tempted to return near a home they have just visited.
However, it was this astonishing scene that took place in Nantes, on the night of Wednesday March 13 to Thursday March 14.
Received in the middle of the night, around 2 a.m., by an owner who had just had his house burglarized, a police patrol made the first observations of the break-in when the victim suddenly froze.
She has just recognized, further down the street, the three men who stole her BMW vehicle an hour earlier.
And who were therefore returning, on foot, to the scene of their offense.
Tried in immediate appearance
A brief chase ensued, after which two of the three suspects fled.
Arrested, the third individual turned out to be a young man of 18 years old, of Tunisian nationality, already known to the police.
“Some personal effects were found along the street, after the suspect was arrested,”
the Loire-Atlantique Departmental Security told Le
Figaro
, without specifying who the objects belonged to.
“However, we do not know why these individuals returned so quickly to the home they visited,”
adds the police, assuming that the suspects were perhaps looking
“to find more to scratch
,” assuming they were discreet during their first visit. .
Unless they had
“forgotten something incriminating on the spot”
.
Earlier in the night, the victim had heard noises at his home, then caught the three suspects in the act leaving in his BMW.
It was a “home-jacking”, in police jargon, that is to say a break-in in the presence of residents.
A bag containing the vehicle's keys - as well as an identity card and a bank card - allowed the thieves to start the car and then drive off with it.
Placed in police custody on Thursday, the arrested man was referred Friday morning to be tried immediately at the Nantes criminal court.