Near Toulouse. Serial burglaries: a duo of thieves identified and convicted
By Thibaut Calatayud
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Cases closed. Friday, December 30, 2022, the gendarmerie of Haute-Garonne reveals to have identified the perpetrators of a dozen burglaries around Toulouse and in the department of Gers.
They use the same car
Everything will start in the summer of 2022. Two individuals carry out several burglaries, in Haute-Garonne and Gers. They always use the same vehicle during their (many) misdeeds. In fact, the duo is the subject of several reports.
On September 7, the burglars’ vehicle was spotted after two new thefts at Saint Jean and to Lapeyrouse-Fossat. The attempt to escape is in vain… The Burglary Investigations group of the Toulouse Saint-Michel Departmental Gendarmerie Company, supported by the territorial brigade of L’Union, manages to intercept the fugitives.
Caught in flagrante delicto
Arrested in flagrante delicto, the two occupants of the vehicle are 28 years old and are in an irregular situation.
“Objects from the burglaries are found in the car. Brought before the public prosecutor of Toulouse, they are each sentenced to 6 months in prison but also banned from French territory for 3 years at the end of their sentence. “
They confess to a series of burglaries
For three months, gendarmerie investigators conducted investigations to see if the duo could not be involved in other cases.
Result ? They are blamed for 14 other burglaries as well as’a trailer flight committed in the municipalities of The union, Saint Jean, Launaguet, Saint Genies Bellevue, Aucamville, Sainte-Foy-d’Aigrefeuille, Saint-Orens-de-Gameville, Ramonville-Saint-Agne, Leguevin, Turnsheet and Colomiers.
Excerpt from the prison of Seysses, the two young men admitted almost all of the facts in police custody. The first of them was sentenced to 15 months in prison. Justice was more “lenient” with his accomplice with a firm six-month sentence.
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