They are a top-notch team.
Experienced thieves, already convicted on multiple occasions for serious offenses.
Hooded, armed, they are preparing to commit their fortieth theft in a few months.
This March 8, their target is located in a warehouse based in Ile-de-France.
The thieves have been notified that a large shipment of luxury leather goods is awaiting shipment.
The market value of their target is estimated at several tens of thousands of euros.
They don't know it yet, but when they enter the scene to steal the trucks loaded with the precious handbags, these seasoned criminals are in reality under the surveillance of elite GIGN gendarmes as well as investigators from the Central Office. of the fight against itinerant delinquency and the research section of Reims.
They leave the warehouse with the goods and are arrested in flagrante delicto.
Millions of dollars in stolen goods
Originally from Ile-de-France, five of them were indicted by a magistrate of the specialized interregional jurisdiction (JIRS) of Lille.
Of these five people, four were imprisoned.
Aged in their thirties to fifty years, the five criminals had been in the sights of the authorities for several months.
In September 2020, the OCLDI gendarmes took an interest in a wave of freight theft and warehouse burglaries affecting Ile-de-France, the Ardennes, or even Burgundy ... In some cases, thefts were committed with forcible confinement.
And the targets were obviously not chosen at random: the places targeted or the trucks attacked are systematically stocked with valuable products: perfumes, leather goods, cigarettes, everything that can be resold at a good price on the black market interested thieves. .. In a few months, the five men indicted would have stolen several million euros worth of goods.
They are also suspected of several thefts of false quality and burglaries of businesses in Yonne or Seine-et-Marne.
