Two people presented as the brain and the logistician of a gang of thieves were arrested on September 28. Their profile testifies to the evolution of these teams.
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The investigation lasted seven months. On September 28, two individuals suspected of being at the origin of an organized gang watch traffic were arrested by the Parisian territorial security officials. The case is emblematic of the evolution of teams specializing in theft of luxury watches, of which Paris remains the world capital.
On February 15, three minors from Val-d’Oise were arrested by the teams of the anti-crime brigades of the 8 e and 16 e boroughs of Paris, just after A flight with violence: a rolex worth 40,000 euros snatched from the wrist of a dentist, rue Bizet. Was not his rapid resolution, the case might seem almost trivial. But the investigators of the “watch groups” of the ST are convinced that they are dealing with a structured team.
Checks made, a mysterious phone call was passed to the victim’s office on the days preceding the assault. At the end of the line, an anonymous interlocutor has strongly insisted on obtaining details on the firm’s opening hours. The line is identified, placed on listening. The operating mode is repeated and, on June 29, another dentist, who shared his passion for beautiful watchmaking on Instagram, is in turn relieved of his rolex, of an estimated value at 20,000 euros, at the foot of his building.
Investigations make it possible to establish that the holder of the line, now baptized the “principal” by the police, was near the places on the day of the attack. He also appears involved in several current projects, an ankle with an accomplice that the investigators soon nicknamed “the logistician”. Him the task of recruiting small hands or finding vehicles.
The two characters seem to be very interested in the owner of a restaurant very in view of the Champs-Elysées district, owner of a Patek Philippe estimated at 250,000 euros. An assault project, followed from start to finish by the investigators, went up for September 27. He finally fails. The next day, the “principal” and the “logistician” are arrested. In police custody, the two accused began by denying the facts before padlocked in a complete silence. The first was incarcerated, the second placed under judicial supervision.
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Their profile: “The twenty, known to the police services but not that much”, breathes a source, the spitting portrait of the new generation of watches of watches, from sensitive districts of Paris or – less frequently – of Subscribe, more or less organized in teams with drawers likely of perpetual recompositions, but violent in most cases. “Delinquents capable of reducing a human being to the value of the watch that he carries on the wrist, advances Commissioner Julien Herbaut, head of the territorial security of Paris, without consideration for his age or his situation.”
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