It is a wave that is sweeping over the Yvelines but also affecting the entire region, that of thieves attacking women who wear necklaces. In Chatou, Poissy, Saint-Germain-en-Laye and Le Vésinet since Saturday thieves have attacked women near stations to seize their gold.
Tuesday evening in Chatou around 8 p.m., two unaccompanied minors assaulted a 63-year-old woman. The two thieves, aged 15 and 16, surprised the victim as she got off the bus, before fleeing in the direction of a residence near the station. The victim notified the emergency services and the agents of the municipal police arrived first. They managed to find and arrest the two delinquents. “One of them had the necklace in his pocket,” explains a source close to the case. The two boys were taken to the police station before being taken into custody.
They target the elderly
In the early afternoon in Poissy, another 77-year-old woman was assaulted in the abbey enclosure by a man who emerged behind her back before tearing off her necklace. The city’s CCTV cameras helped get hold of the 21-year-old. This young man, originally from Loire-Atlantique, was taken into custody at the police station. Already on Saturday a 15-year-old teenager was arrested in Vésinet after assaulting three sixty-year-olds in this city and in Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
“These young thieves target old people who can fall during attacks,” laments a magistrate. The consequences can be very serious, we have seen some victims die or break the neck of the femur ”. Among these criminals, the police count many minors. Homeless, it is often the same who attack businesses and pavilions at night to rob them. They squat in accommodation in Paris or Saint-Denis (Seine-Saint-Denis) and take the RER to scour the Parisian suburbs.
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