The six faces who form the group of luxury car thieves left the Tours Libres courthouse on Thursday, November 7, 2024. At the end of two days of trial, sentences of between two and fifteen months in prison were been pronounced by the criminal court.
Far from the portrait of the organized and sharp team which had been able to flee at the time of the arrests, the investigation then the hearing drew the outlines of a team of amateurs, easily guided by the markings of a stolen Renault Mégane , physical surveillance and telephone interceptions.
The careless use of bank cards at toll gates or at gas stations and the exploitation of surveillance cameras had completely confused them.
“Quick money”
In August and September 2022, they raided six high-end cars and two motorcycles from properties and garages in Indre-et-Loire and Sarthe. “I was just looking to make some quick money”was able to explain Si Ahmed, one of the defendants, on Wednesday.
The most involved of the six received fifteen months in prison, the heaviest sentence. For his sidekick in pre-trial detention until trial like him, the sentences handed down were covered by the period already spent in prison since their arrest.
