They only gained a refreshing bath.
Monday afternoon, the three men who had just committed a burglary in Coulommiers tried everything to outrun the police who were on their trail.
Including jumping into the Grand Morin.
A splash that caused a splash since all three of them ended up being arrested.
They were still in custody this Tuesday evening.
It all started shortly before 4:30 p.m., when the owner of a house on rue Carnot discovered that his house had been broken into and that he had just been robbed.
He immediately alerts the police who arrive on the spot.
Very quickly, three suspects are spotted and pursued by a crew.
They then decide to try everything for the time being by throwing it into the water.
Not the police, who prefer to stay dry and make a detour to try to catch them a little further away.
Part of the stolen jewelry was recovered
The strategy is all the more winning when the suspects in question are “old” acquaintances.
One of them is arrested soaked to the skin a few meters from the river.
The second was found a little later in the town center of Coulommiers.
The third will be arrested in the evening as he was returning home.
Aged 16, 18 and 20, all three already have several entries in the Criminal Record Processing (TAJ) file.
Jewelry was reportedly stolen during the burglary, but investigators found part of the loot.
The only downside was that a reservist police officer who had gone after the fugitives suffered a ruptured Achilles tendon and was taken by firefighters to Coulommiers hospital.