The jewel robbers betrayed themselves.
Their work tool was too specific not to be spotted.
Two criminals, aged 23 and 26, were indicted on Thursday in Pontoise (Val-d'Oise) for armed robbery before being imprisoned.
They are suspected of having, on Tuesday January 23, robbed the Cléor jewelry store in Sannois.
It was around 11 a.m. in the Carrefour shopping center that the two hooded men armed with a pistol burst into the store where two employees were present.
The thugs brandish a hammer and break windows.
They empty the displays and seize loot estimated at 100,000 euros.
The employees, shocked but not injured, called emergency services.
The investigations are entrusted to the banditry brigade of SIPJ 95 (Val-d'Oise interdepartmental judicial police service).
The neighborhood investigation and video surveillance images allow us to understand that the bandits fled on a scooter.
A little later their two-wheeler was found burned in Argenteuil.
Forensic police technicians identify traces and clues in the business.
The police decide to do policing the old-fashioned way.
They are interested in the hammer that their thieves used to break the windows.
“It’s a model that is only sold in DIY stores,” specifies a source close to the matter.
The investigators went to a large store well known in the area and frequented by DIY enthusiasts and building professionals.
The two suspects denied outright
Without waiting, they recovered the video surveillance images which made it possible to find the faces and names of these two suspects, already known from the police archives.
The duo was arrested on Tuesday March 19 at their home, with the assistance of the BRI of Val-d'Oise before being placed in police custody in the premises of the PJ in Cergy.
The searches did not produce any new elements.
The two boys denied the facts before remaining silent.
The loot has not been found.