Their profession: international receiver of stolen gold. This father and his son, of Serbian origin, were indicted on Thursday in Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis) for hiding in an organized gang. They are suspected of having implemented for about a year, between Livry-Gargan and Belgium, a system of collection and concealment of jewels from burglaries. These thefts were carried out by Romanian robbery teams operating in the Paris region and throughout France. They attacked houses and apartments whose doors they broke down, interested only in jewels.
The noose tightened in November 2020, when the gendarmes of the Versailles research section (Yvelines) gathered information on a team of criminals of Serbian origin living in Livry-Gargan. The military carries out surveillance for many months on this clan. They discover that they are in contact with two jewelers from Antwerp in Belgium, already known, to buy stolen goods. The montes en l’air come to their home every day. They pass briefly and exit a few minutes later, sometimes with tickets in hand. «In this case the investigators chose to focus on the curators and did not determine the number of thefts committed, specifies a source close to the file. The soldiers did painstaking work on the fourgues and understood that the criminals had made about ten trips, laden with about 5 kg of gold jewelry, to meet these Belgian jewelers. »
45 kg of gold exported to Belgium
Last Sunday the police decided to put an end to the actions of this clique. They are launching, under the leadership of Europol, a joint operation bringing together the federal judicial police and the gendarmerie in Antwerp, Kontich (Belgium) and Livry-Gargan (Seine-Saint-Denis). In Belgium, two women of this family from Seine-Saint-Denis were arrested when they had to resell stolen gold in four jewelers run by two rogue traders.
The search made it possible to obtain possession of 45 kg of gold for a value of 2.3 million euros. But also on a dozen luxury watches and 400,000 euros in cash. During the hearings, these two men, aged between twenty and forty, remained silent. They were not known to justice until now. They were to appear in the evening before the judge of liberties and detention of Bobigny. The two jewelers and the two accomplices were jailed in Belgium. They will then be extradited to be presented to the investigating judge of Bobigny.
