Around 1 p.m. on Thursday, September 26, a surreal robbery occurred in a bakery in the 20th arrondissement of Paris.
A woman went to the rue de Ménilmontant to threaten a baker with a hunting weapon, to obtain… a cookie. The police took the suspect into custody.
An improbable robbery in the middle of Paris
According to information from Parisianit was around 1 p.m. on September 26 that a woman was seen, shotgun over my shoulder, in rue Ménilmontant in Paris. She had just gone to the bakery.Four hours Ménilmontant“, where she threat the manager with his gun. The suspect first asked for a cappuccino, before the baker told her that he did not offer any, according to a police source.
The woman would then have become threatening and would have targeted the merchant, in order to obtain… a cookie. The suspect then fled to take refuge in the common areas of a building near the business.
The shotgun was actually a theater prop
Very quickly alerted, the police launched a general appeal to the police, “with a brief description”, according to a source close to the case. The police then searched the area and found the woman, without her rifle. They then arrested and placed in police custody the suspect. A search of his home then allowed the police to find the
gunwith a unstocked charger.
No injuries were reported and at the end of the day, the baker had to file a complaint. Saturday September 28, the director of the Théâtre des Gémaux, Serge Paumier, revealed that the weapon used was a accessory stolen a few minutes before the events, in the dressing rooms of his establishment. It is therefore a surreal heist, and for little loot.
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