The investigations had been launched by the gendarmes after the discovery of three vehicles stolen from two containers in the village of Saulx-Marchais (Yvelines) to Paris et en Eure-et-Loir. Six (6) months after this first discovery, the investigators of the research section of the gendarmerie of Versailles ended up discovering ” a particularly organized network »Traffickers in stolen cars, for the most part in the Parisian suburbs and then shipped in Africa.
Composed of seven (7) people, the network includes members aged 20 to 35 years old and mostly residing in Seine-Saint-Denis. According to investigators, these young people operate at night according to a well-established strategy. Indeed, they ” perform a discreet break-in on one of the doors then connect a computer to the vehicle’s diagnostic socket on which illegally acquired reprogramming software was installed. In a few minutes, the vehicle is reprogrammed and has a new key », Explained the gendarmes. Later that night the vehicle is picked up by other young people who are paid at a cost of around fifty euros for a displaced car.
4 people detained
The car is then left parked on the public road after several days or weeks with a license plate change. Once they make sure that the vehicle can no longer be tracked, other members of the network will search for it. It is then loaded into a container and then shipped to theAfrica via the sea. According to investigators, the theft of at least thirty vehicles, for the majority of models SUV have been recorded in the region. The alleged traffickers were indicted at Versailles Friday. According to the gendarmerie four of them were taken into custody.
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