The Maty jewelry store, located in the city center, was visited last night. An investigation was opened for burglary and destruction by fire.
Le Figaro Nantes
Many traders and workers could not access their offices this Thursday morning, at the bottom of rue Crébillon, in Nantes. And for good reason: a Maty jewelry store located in this chic neighborhood, a stone’s throw from Place Royale, was visited during the night from Wednesday to Thursday. According to the morning revelations of Ocean Press , the damage amounts to tens of thousands of euros. Around 200,000 euros, indicated in the afternoon at Figaro a police source. If the curtain of the storefront bears no marks, the still charred windows of the floor above leave clues to the events which took place a few hours previously.
At 6:59 a.m., the security agency monitoring the store noticed on video surveillance that a break-in was in progress. “Arriving on the scene four minutes later, the first responders did not note the presence of any individual but discovered the start of a fire on the second floor”reported the public prosecutor of Nantes, Renaud Gaudeul.
Around 7:15 a.m., around twenty firefighters were dispatched to the site to put out the fire, which was quickly brought under control. “It was then noted that premises located on the second floor had been broken into and a floor had been cut through allowing access to the premises of the jewelry store.. Also, “interior display cases containing watches and jewelry were broken”. The apartment overlooking the shop visited was a business premises which occasionally served as accommodation for its owner, according to witnesses met on site. It was empty last night. An investigation into burglary and destruction by fire was opened and entrusted to the organized and specialized crime division of the DTPN in Nantes.
A rare event
Around 11 a.m., the judicial police were still on site to carry out investigations. And understand in particular how the fire started: voluntary? accidental? She had to stay there all day while the manager of the targeted store, walking the 100 steps in front, hoped to be able to reopen this weekend.
During the operation, a resident of 5e floor of a neighboring building was evacuated by firefighters, hampered by the smoke, but was not transported to hospital. The employee of a neighboring jewelry store, observing the scene, was hallucinated: “This is the first time that i see this”, she confided to Figaro. In this opulent corner of Nantes, this remains rarer than in the capital. Just this weekend, employees of a 5-star hotel were robbed, victims of an armed robbery in Paris, near the Champs-Élysées.
