Paris: the double bass at 11,000 euros stolen from a train reappears … on Leboncoin
The double bass will have traveled, from Chartres to Paris, passing by the Montparnasse station, the 17th arrondissement, a luthier’s shop in the 9th district, an advertisement on the Leboncoin site then in the end, the Place Adolphe-Chérioux (15th century), place of denouement of the story, with arrest of the thief and a happy ending, the return of the instrument.
“Loup75”, “businessman” at his time on Leboncoin under interim hours, officiating, from the 17th arrondissement of Paris, with legal liabilities a property provided – about fifty facts to his credit, including drug trafficking, theft with violence – will have to be explained to justice. On Friday, he was arrested in flagrante delicto by the mountain biking police from the 15th arrondissement police station. The thug who offered for sale a double bass, worth 11,000 euros, which he had stolen, to a client… who was in fact the owner! And who had notified the police.
He gets help from social networks
The story begins on September 18. A 37-year-old jazzman, saxophonist and double bass player is on the Chartres-Paris train with his double bass. Considering the size of the instrument, he places it in the part of the train reserved for bicycles. Except that fifteen minutes later, as the train entered Montparnasse station, the double bass disappeared.
The musician, desperate, complains and sets social networks in motion. A few days later, a Parisian luthier contacted him, saying that a man had come to him for an expertise. He did not identify his identity but gave his description. Then a friend of the musician, mobilized, will find the trace of the double bass… on the online advertisements site Leboncoin! The two friends then decide to trap the thief. Last Friday, the musician went with his father, also a jazzman, to the planned meeting place, Place Adolphe-Cherioux (15th century), in the Vaugirard district, not without making a detour through the 15th century police station …
The thief denies then confesses
A police crew, mountain bikers, straddles their little queens and discreetly ambushes themselves. The thief arrives with the double bass. He was arrested, handcuffed and brought back to the police station. “He began to say that it was not him, sighs a source close to the file. The great classic! Then accumulated, he affirmed that he had found the instrument in Montparnasse station and that in no case had he tried to sell it! “
Except … the phone number in the ad on the sales site matched his. Loup75 was therefore taken into police custody. He stayed there until Sunday. Then was referred to the Paris court. Released but placed under judicial control, he will be summoned by the public prosecutor and will be tried.