The prosecutor underlined "the rarely observed quality" of the images which could have made it possible to formally identify the thug.
This Thursday, the judicial court of Pau (Pyrénées-Atlantiques) sentenced a 46-year-old man to two years in prison for thefts from a trailer in a parking lot in a town in Béarn where the vehicles of participants in a wedding were parked. , report our colleagues from South-West.
But it is rather the means allowing the identification and the interpellation of the thief which clashes.
New technologies have indeed provided irrefutable proof of the guilt of this man to the 15 convictions for theft from his criminal record.
On August 13, while he was going around the Rontignon car park and breaking the windows of vehicles to seize bags left visible, a Tesla brand car triggered its "Sentinel" mode camera system, which the owner had activated.
Once the images provided and at the end of an investigation of several weeks, the forty-year-old was arrested at his home on Tuesday by the Surveillance and Intervention Platoon of the Gendarmerie (Psig) of Pau.
“Cameras are triggered in the event of a threat”
“I saw the bags, I took them, he summarizes at the bar, quoted by La République des Pyrénées.
I blame myself a lot, especially for the victims.
In the images, he can be seen putting on gloves and all at once smashing a window before grabbing a bag.
If he initially denied, the defendant had to face the facts.
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Facing the court, it will be recalled that he was still equipped with an electronic bracelet a few days before the facts, but the measure had just been suspended for medical reasons.
A four-month reprieve was revoked before his incarceration.
He will also have to pay around 2,000 euros in damages to the five victims, who will each receive 300 euros in non-pecuniary damage.
