Two people suspected of having committed an organized theft at the Louis Vuitton store in Paris in November 2024 were arrested this Wednesday morning.
They were taken into police custody and are currently being questioned by investigators.
Remember, November 12, 2024, in the middle of the night, at 4:30 a.m. precisely: a ram car broke down the front door of the Louis Vuitton store located at 170 boulevard Saint-Germain in Paris. The criminals took the opportunity to steal hundreds of items after threatening a private security agent.
A neighbor even films the thugs while calling the police. One of them greets the man on the balcony by giving him the middle finger, before fleeing with his accomplices. The police then lost track of the escapees on the A4 motorway.
The hunt and the investigation
An investigation into organized theft was then opened by the Paris prosecutor’s office. Very quickly dispossessed of the investigations, the police officers of the 3rd DPJ transmitted the meager clues collected on site in the early morning to their colleagues from the BRB (Brigade for the Repression of Banditry) of the Parisian judicial police. Much more experienced police officers who are used to going after such well-prepared criminals.
For almost two months, BRB investigators will use technical and human resources to identify and then find the criminals. To begin with, “the leakers comment on few errors”analyzes an investigator. The police will deploy their entire arsenal of techniques – more or less secret – to track them down: telephone analysis, information via informers, shadowing, surveillance… And even be on the lookout for drug resale networks. luxury leather goods both on consumer sites and on the dark web.
A job that pays off a few weeks after the fact. According to exclusive information from TF1/LCI, investigators are interested in a group of four suspected criminals.
By monitoring their every move, the agents will realize that they “dipped in the world of theft and concealment of leather goods”a source tells us. “They soak in it so much that they even swim in it!” quips a source close to the matter. Indeed, the police discover that this team of criminals plans to take action very soon on a very specific target.
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Discreetly, they will then follow the thugs and wait for the opportune moment. Nothing to report in December, then the end of year holidays pass. 2025 arrives with, normally, good resolutions. For our criminals, “it is clearly a desire to take action from January”says a police officer.
Tuesday evening, this commando spotted by BRB police officers leaves the base camp where they are installed in the east of the Ile-de-France region. They take the road, towards the Centre-Val de Loire region, and arrive in the department of Indre-et-Loire. The investigators quickly understand that the criminals are planning to commit a new theft, this time within a company which manufactures and handcrafts items for the Louis Vuitton brand. With their discretion, the investigators follow the commando at a good distance.
The BRB police officers are supported in this surveillance by their colleagues from the BRI in Versailles. Instructions are given by the investigating magistrate to allow the theft to take place in order to attribute this new fact to the team before the eyes of the sworn agents. The police monitor, photograph and record the slightest actions of the criminals. Then, a new spinning mill begins towards the North… Direction the Paris region and the departure base camp in Seine-et-Marne. In the early morning, the “top arrest” is given. Two people are arrested. These profiles, known to the police, are currently being questioned in police custody.
