It’s a very unusual way of wanting to go unnoticed. With their loot under their arms, two men aged 23 and 24 who have just attacked a parked vehicle order a VTC. The scene took place on September 27, shortly before 4 a.m., avenue Carnot in Saint-Germain-en-Laye (Yvelines).
When they arrive, the driver refuses to let them in, because of the heavy bags filled with tools and other miscellaneous items that they are carrying. He finds them suspicious and alerts the police.
Except that in the meantime, the two individuals have already ordered another VTC which agreed to take them over. The first VTC decides to follow them up to the Hauts de Seine. It is there that he comes across a police patrol to whom he explains the situation.
Checked by the police, the two individuals were found carrying an identity card of a man living in Saint-Germain-en-Laye and whose car was “visited” during the night. They are placed in police custody for acts of receiving stolen goods in the town of La Garenne-Colombes (Hauts-de-Seine).
Alerted to this arrest, the Saint-Germain-en-Laye investigators took up the case and began investigations. Thanks to cross-checking work on the objects seized from the two suspects, they identified four other potential victims. All for thefts from trailers due to broken deflectors of their vehicles, committed near the place where the individuals were picked up by the first VTC.
Increasing incidents in the constituency of Saint-Germain-en-Laye
During their hearings, the two men, of no fixed address, gave the same fanciful explanation, indicating that they had bought all the objects found on them from an unknown man in the Parc de la Villette (in Paris) before coming to Saint-Germain-en -Laye to sleep in a squat. A version undermined by the exploitation of their phones. The objects found and identified were returned to their owners.
In an irregular situation on the national territory, the two homeless people were referred on September 28 before being sentenced two days later to 5 months in prison with continued detention. A definitive ban from the territory was also pronounced during the judgment.
This resolved case comes against a backdrop of an increase in caravan thefts and vehicle damage in the Saint-Germain-en-Laye district.
