Toulouse: two pickpockets aged 12 and 13 arrested after a theft
After 2 hours of shadowing, police officers from the Toulouse Left Bank anti-crime brigade arrested three young girls. Minors who have issued from stealing a bank card.
When a traveler alerted the police on Monday March 7 in the early afternoon, suspecting two young girls of being more interested in the ladies’ bag than in public transport, police officers from the anti-crime brigade quickly spotted two young teenage girls , at Saint-Cyprien metro station, in Toulouse.
The beginning of a long journey in the metro trains, but also in the tramway. Several times, the plainclothes police thought that this duo, reinforced by a third young woman, was going to take action, but things dragged on. Down in Blagnac, the young girls put tape on the ticket distribution coin mechanism. The first candidate for the purchase of a “contactless” paid ticket. The next one, on the other hand, used his code before borrowing a train, the young girls behind him.
The two youngest placed in foster care
Arrived at the Arena, the boy descended. “There was a jostling and within seconds the wallet changed hands,” said a police officer. The victim did not notice anything but the police, continuing their shadowing, intervened when the suspects were trying to make bank withdrawals in the Croix-Pierre sector. It was easy to verify that the bank card did not belong to the three young women, two of whom were aged 12 and 13!
Placed in police custody, these young girls from the former Eastern countries were not very talkative. The two youngest were placed in a children’s home on Tuesday at the end of their detention measures. The oldest, even more silent than her “friends” is still in police custody at the premises of the Left Bank judicial support group on Tuesday evening. Investigators were trying to verify his identity, and his real age.