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A series of express burglaries hits grocery stores in Châteauroux

The burglary did not “didn’t even last a minute”. On the surveillance camera of his small grocery store on rue Saint-Luc, in Châteauroux, the owner of RN Market saw a man break his window and grab the cash register around 5 a.m., Tuesday January 21, 2025. “The alarm went off and he immediately left”he continues. The neutral voice, without comment, except: “This is the second time this has happened to me. » This convenience store opened ago “about two years”he says, and mainly offers food until 1 a.m.

The cash register discovered in the parking lot

The window was changed the same day, as soon as the damage was noted by the national police. As if nothing had happened. According to the national police, the window was broken using a manhole cover, found at the scene. The cash register was discovered with a few coins on level -2 of the car park, under Cours Saint-Luc. The amount of damage has not yet been estimated.

This is the third grocery store robbed in a few days in Châteauroux. With, each time, trivial thefts and damage to the storefronts. A man “broke the computer with the cash register and left with the change” described Thursday January 16, 2025, the owner of the Yerevan grocery store, rue Paul-Louis-Courier. The burglar, alone in the images, returned to get a bottle of alcohol ten minutes later.

The burglary lasted “two minutes”

Sunday January 19, around 4 a.m., it was the turn of the Tible Lahoucine supermarket to be targeted. « Surprise ! » Here again, the burglary lasted “two minutes”testifies the owner based on his video surveillance images. The grocer, rue de Bourgogne, in the Beaulieu district, opened in 1989, he says, and “he had never been robbed”. Today he campaigns for “the return of light” in his street. The burglar “broke the window, he slipped between the shelveshe explains. I don’t know how he did it. » This man left with €200 and, again, a single bottle of alcohol.

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