Illustration of a municipal police vehicle. – J. Diesnis / Maxele Presse Agency
Three young people Homeless including two minors, already well known to police, were arrested late last week in
Villeurbanne. They are suspected of violence after two attempts at pickpocketing, we learned this Tuesday from the Sûreté du
Rhône.
The two adolescents with 36 and 16 criminal records refused to speak in police custody, but the adult reportedly reported them. According to the version he delivered to investigators, they assaulted a first man on May 2 in the midst of confinement in the 7th arrondissement of Lyon.
Umbrella shots
The victim, in his 60s, struggled when he felt a hand in his pocket. An altercation ensued in which she was struck with an umbrella.
Two days later, the same scenario at the Hôtel de Ville metro station in Lyon. This time, it was a thirty-something man who was taken to task by a thief “at the pick-up” whom he had surprised busy in his pockets and by his two accomplices who started to beat him.
Questioned by the investigators, the major acknowledged his participation in the events while designating his minor accomplices as being a thief and co-perpetrator of the violence. He was left free to be returned to the Lyon administrative detention center. The two miners were presented to the prosecution. The first was left free with the opening of information and the second was imprisoned pending trial in court on Tuesday.
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