Toulouse: a burglary specialist falls for a series of burglary
Accustomed to burglaries, an individual wanted for several months following thefts in Tournefeuille, Blagnac and Toulouse was arrested by the police. Sentenced by the criminal court, this 25-year-old boy went back to detention.
The same time slots, at the beginning of the afternoon, and identical methods of entering homes, by forcing French windows, intrigued the investigators of the unit of connoisseurs of goods on the Left Bank. And the meticulous work carried out by the criminal investigation group made it possible on several occasions to identify traces which made it possible to suspect an individual, already known.
For lack of a known address, a search warrant had been issued and the police from the public transport surveillance unit identified the suspect on Monday. Placed in police custody, this man did not recognize all the burglaries of which he was accused.
Investigators suspected him of acts committed last summer, between July and September. In Tournefeuille, the accommodation of a young woman had been visited and various objects stolen, including a stolen 125 cm3 scooter with key, helmets and gloves. This machine was found at the end of August, in Carcassonne. The new owner had bought it from a famous internet site.
The house of a 70-year-old lady had also been “visited”, in the same rue de Tournefeuille. Watches but also an ivory statue, of great value, had disappeared. At Pradettes, in early August 2021, a suspect had been put to flight by witnesses. The scientific police had nevertheless found an exploitable trace. No clues this time in Blagnac, in September, where a woman had found her degraded accommodation with the disappearance of computer equipment, game consoles and other branded clothing…
In hearing, the suspect admitted his responsibility when the scientific exploitation of the discovered traces left him no way out. Presented to the prosecution on Wednesday, then before the criminal court on Thursday, June 16 during the hearing of immediate comparisons, this boy tried for “repeat theft” was sentenced to 10 months in prison. Placed under a warrant, he will spend the summer in the heat of the Seysses prison.