Nearly four months after the robbery of a jewelry store in Gstaadt, Switzerland, a team of robbers, suspected of being at the origin of the coup, was arrested in Lyon, Marseille but also in the vicinity of Nice, we learn this Friday from the Marseille prosecutor's office.
The facts were committed on February 9 at 12:30 p.m. Threatening the shop's employees with handguns, two criminals had seized numerous pieces of jewellery worth an estimated 40 million Swiss francs (about 41 million euros). Before leaving behind the wheel of a stolen vehicle in Annemasse, Haute-Savoie.
Four people imprisoned
This week, eleven people, suspected of being involved in this robbery to varying degrees, were arrested by the personnel of the judicial police of Nice and Lyon, with the assistance of the raid and the Nice BRI. "During the searches, 4,550 euros, serflex, two walkie-talkies, a tracker and a jammer were seized," says the Marseille prosecutor's office.
Four of them, men aged between 27 and 32, were indicted for "robbery with a weapon in an organized gang" and "participation in a criminal association for organized crime and organized robbery". They were imprisoned.
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