Sunday evening, while they were on the lawn to play the 29e Ligue 1 day against Nantes, two Paris SG players, Angel Di Maria and captain Marquinhos, were victims of burglars. During the first act, the family of El Fideo was present at the scene of the facts, in the Hauts-de-Seine, but without meeting the criminals. The damage suffered would be around € 500,000. The second theft took place almost at the same time, in the Yvelines: this time, it was members of the Marquinhos family, including his father and uncle, who were violently “home-jacked”.
Thefts that resonate locally since on March 7, the DFCO player Wesley Lautoa was also the victim of a “visit” to his home, while he was on a weekend with his companion. The judicial police were seized. More than a week after the incident, no new information can be communicated. For the record, only the midfielder’s Porsche Macan was found a few hours after the incident.
Last year, during confinement, in the space of a few weeks, three other Dijon players, defender Nayef Aguerd, striker Mounir Chouiar and then defender Mickaël Alphonse had suffered similar facts. Bruno Ecuele Manga, he had known the same fate in August.
Files treated like any other
“I recall that the teams of the judicial police of Dijon had brought to light, by flagrante delicto in an individual, a pair of professional thugs who had carried out 17 break-ins, including 4 at these players”, slips Magali Caillat, director of the DIPJ of Dijon (Interregional Directorate of the Judicial Police).
It specifies that the cases concerning personalities are treated “at the same level” as the others. “It is not the importance of the theft, nor the profile of the victim, but the seriality, the fact that similar events are repeated, which means that we will put the file on the top of the pile”, details t she, ensuring that if the breakages among the stars of the round ball “hit the headlines”, they remain “in the minority”.
Finally, she recalls that the “fashion” of home or car-jacking of rich football players began “in Marseille ten years ago”, before spreading everywhere in France, “and even with teams. less structured ”. In 2010, in fact, and in less than a year, seven Marseille players were home-jacked. “These are not the thieves of opportunity who take advantage of an open door or window. They are experts who profile their targets, know their address and take action when the players are in the middle of a match, ”often leaving a property unoccupied for several hours.
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