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Saint-André-des-Eaux. The fake cops held up for drugs

When waking up around 5:30 a.m. on Friday, November 6, because a light had remained on in the main room, a mother experienced the shock of the improbable intrusion: three hooded, gloved men, dressed in the same way and especially armed. “We are police officers from the Nantes brigade and we are conducting a search “, They said counting on the misty mind of the woman, reports an investigator. They also woke the children up to better search the house and find what they had come for, drugs or money.

The resident still asked her police officers for their cards without armband and surprisingly young people. It was too much, the subterfuge no longer held, they fled in the car where a fourth thief was waiting. The mother of the family alerted a neighbor and the gendarmerie.

The research brigade of the Saint-Nazaire gendarmerie company and investigators from the Guérande brigade concentrated their action during the weekend, made up of cross-checking and reporting like the car used by the false police officers. As of Monday, the first suspects were arrested in Saint-Nazaire and Saint-André-des-Eaux, with the support of a surveillance and intervention squad of the gendarmerie (Psig). The others were taken into custody on Tuesday.

These are three adults aged 19 to 25. Two minors were also in the commando. Because according to the first elements released by the defendants, the instigator is a man suspected of trafficking and who was seeking to recover a sum of several thousand euros from a client. He then showed her the house of a man who might have some produce or money.

The indebted then assembled a team with the mission of robbing the owner. They eventually missed it to find themselves searching the house for themselves. The three adult men were to be presented before the prosecution and the liberties and detention judge pending a possible trial during an immediate appearance.

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