Near Toulouse: minors stole and beat iPhone sellers contacted on Leboncoin
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Crooks aged 16 to 17 met sellers of Apple brand items contacted on Leboncoin.fr in the pink city, a popular district of Ramonville near Toulouse. Once there, they robbed their victims, sometimes with violence.
The press often echoes scams of all kinds on the Leboncoin site. Most of the time, it is the products that are the victims either because they are given counterfeits or they are sold stolen ones. Not this time. This Monday, September 19, the gendarmes of Castanet-Tolosan arrested and placed in police custody five elderly minors suspected of having committed thefts with violence against a dozen sellers of Iphone or Ipad contacted via this digital platform. These young people aged 16 to 17, residing in Ramonville, arranged to meet their victims in the pink city, a popular district of the city. They pretended to check the quality of phones or tablets before spinning with without of course paying the expected amount. Sometimes they went so far as to beat victims to snatch their Apple-branded products. The stolen goods were used for their personal use or resold at Easycash (sign for the purchase and sale of second-hand products). It was through this that the soldiers were able to identify the small “gang”. Four of them admitted the facts. The fifth remains camped on its positions. They will soon be summoned to court.