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 concealment 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 jewelry from burglaries. These thefts were carried out by teams of Romanian burglars who operated in the Paris region and throughout France. They attacked houses and apartments whose doors they broke down, only interested in jewelry.
The noose tightened in January 2020, when the gendarmes of the research section of Versailles (Yvelines) received anonymous information on a team of criminals of Serbian origin who live in Livry-Gargan. The military carry 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.
“In this case the investigators chose to focus on the receivers and did not determine the number of thefts committed, specifies a source close to the case. The soldiers did painstaking work on the fourgues and they understood that the criminals had made about ten trips to meet these Belgian jewelers. »
45 kg of gold seized in Belgium
On Monday, the police decided to put an end to the actions of this clique. They launched, under the rule 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 from this Seine-Saint-Denis family were arrested when they had to resell the stolen gold in four jewelry stores run by two dishonest traders.
The search made it possible to get hold of 45 kg of gold worth 2.3 million euros. But also on a dozen luxury watches. During the hearings, these two men, in their twenties and forties, remained silent. They were not known to justice until now. They were to appear in the evening before the judge of freedoms and detention of Bobigny. In Belgium, the two jewelers and the two female accomplices were imprisoned. They will be extradited later to be presented to the investigating judge of Bobigny.
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