Toulouse. He helps a motorist in “distress”: his kindness plays him a (very) bad trick
Through Quentin Marais
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While he was filling up at Toulouse, next to a gas station de Purpan, a young 21-year-old driver was called for help by another motorist, Friday January 13, 2023. His kindness played him a very nasty trick…
Mechanical problems
It is 10 p.m. when a young man of 21 fill up, in a station located in the Purpan sector, on this Friday evening. According to a police source, the latter was accosted by a person claiming to have mechanical problems about her car: “she told him that she had trouble starting and maintaining the engine speed to drive normally”. His interlocutor asks him to follow him to be able to help him repair the vehicle.
The vehicle is stolen
The young man accepts and everyone finds their four-wheelers. Arrived on a street that investigators are still trying to determine, the mini convoy stops. The kindness of the man who had just filled the tank of his Citroën C3 turns against him. “He is the victim of vehicle theft. with the threat of a weapon : two individuals arrive, seize the car and divide up. »
The vehicle that was allegedly the subject of “mechanical problems” file also. It turns out that this famous Citröen C3 stolen from the 21-year-old driver… does not belong to him. Indeed, as this same police source specifies, “it is a rental car“.
always wanted
In the afternoon of this Saturday January 14, 2023, the stolen vehicle was still not found by law enforcement. In September 2022, violent carjacking had happened in the Balma-Gramont metro car park. The vehicle had been found… in Belgium.
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