Suspected of two burglaries in Roannais and another in Isère, a man and two young girls were arrested when leaving the hotel where they were staying in Roanne.
Their vehicle was spotted around 5am on the night of Friday 28 to Saturday 29 June by men from the Roanne Gendarmerie Surveillance and Intervention Platoon (PSIG). While they were making rounds in certain strategic areas of the Loire sub-prefecture, suspecting acts of itinerant delinquency, the soldiers identified a suspicious car parked in the car park of a hotel.
Immediately, a system was put in place to monitor the comings and goings of the occupants of the vehicle. As soon as they left their hotel room, the three individuals were immediately arrested. They are a 35-year-old man and two girls aged 12 and 13, all of Croatian nationality.
In Villerest and Pouilly-sous-Charlieu in mid-June
According to the first elements of the investigation carried out by the gendarmerie, the trio committed two burglaries in Villerest and Pouilly-sous-Charlieu in mid-June, as well as another in Voreppe (Isère), at the end of the month of may. With jewels as loot every time. Investigations are nevertheless continuing to verify whether the three suspects have not been guilty of other acts of the same type in the region.
As the man is a foreign national, he was placed in an administrative detention center. The two minors were placed in a home.
Pauline Michaud
