Gironde: worldwide community of luxurious automobile thieves dismantled, two million euros in injury

The injury is estimated at two million euros. Seventeen suspects automobile theft and stolen items head in France and overseas, was arrested on the finish of Might, the Bordeaux prosecutor’s workplace introduced on Friday.

The suspects, “suspected to belong to an organized prison group”, recognized some fashions of “high-end autos” for his or her “marked flaws in digital safety”, Bordeaux public prosecutor Frédérique Porterie in a press launch. This community, which primarily included nationals of a number of Japanese European international locations, offered these autos, by “notably refined registration fraud”, to “buying networks” in France and several other different international locations in West Africa and Japanese Europe.

Eleven suspects have been introduced earlier than the decide

The investigation was opened in February by the prosecutor’s workplace of the Particular Interregional Jurisdiction (Jirs) of Bordeaux, after a sequence of robberies, together with a number of in Gironde on the finish of 2023. In complete, extra has recognized sixty victims for complete estimated damages. at two million euros.

Of the 17 suspects arrested on Tuesday by French gendarmes, in addition to cops from Belgium and Spain, eleven have been handed over to the investigating decide of the Jirs de Bordeaux with a view to being the cost of “car theft by an organized gang”, “concealment of an organized group” and “prison affiliation.”