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The heist took place this Thursday, November 24 at the tobacco press Le Bretagne, in the town center of Saint-Julien-de-Concelles (near Nantes, in Loire-Atlantique). When the business opened at 7 a.m.

€200 and two cartons of cigarettes

According to our information, a young man in his twenties, in a hooded tracksuitwith a surgical mask on his nose, appeared in the trade, with a weapon (fictitious or not).

He allegedly left with €200 in cash and two cartons of cigarettes, leaving the manager in shock.

An important gendarmerie device canvassed the premises, especially since an attempted break-in was noted at a business in the city center in recent hours. “The investigation is open, but at this time there is nothing to link the two cases,” reports the gendarmerie.

For this town of 7,700 inhabitantsabout twenty minutes from Nantes, “this is the first time that a robbery has taken place in a business”, relates the mayor Thierry Agasse, to The Weekly of Sèvre et Maine. This incident follows a series of burglaries in Saint-Julien-de-Concelles.

“There is a resurgence”

For three to four weeks, our businesses have been attacked, there has been an upsurge, it's unheard of.

Of the However, measures have been taken recently such as turning on the street lights again at night in the hyper-center where the shops and restaurants are concentrated. The mayor held an “emergency” meeting with traders at the end of this morning to put in place new safety features.

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