They were betrayed by their two-wheeler, left in a panic at the scene of the robbery. Two 16-year-old suspects were arrested, charged, and placed in detention for a violent attempted robbery carried out last Friday in a tobacco store in Villeurbanne near Lyon, we learned from the police.
That day, two people, including one armed, broke into the business of the Tolstoy course, already targeted by criminals in November and December last. Faced with the young robbers, the tobacconist did not dismount and violently opposed his attackers, Friday noon, managing to put them to flight.
First suspect arrested
While chasing the perpetrators in the street, the man received a butt butts in the face which made him lose consciousness and two shots were fired in his direction, without injuring him, adds the Rhône departmental security . By exploiting the video surveillance images, the police discovered shortly after the facts that the two suspects, visibly destabilized by the reaction of the merchant, had left their scooter parked near the tobacco.
Identified thanks to the technical examination of the vehicle, a first suspect living in Villeurbanne was arrested at his home the same afternoon. During the search of the minor's home, known for around twenty criminal records, the investigators discovered an empty briefcase containing a weapon firing blank bullets identical to that used during the attempted robbery. The minor, placed in police custody, would have finally recognized the facts, according to the police.
The investigation continues on commission
After cross-checking, the police managed to trace their accomplice, a 16-year-old boy, arrested in Meyzieu on Sunday morning. Known for eleven criminal records, the boy is also said to have acknowledged his involvement in the attempted armed robbery.
Presented to the prosecution on Sunday and after the opening of a judicial investigation, the two minors were put under investigation by an investigating judge and placed in pre-trial detention in penal establishments for minors in the region, specifies this Tuesday the Lyon police . The investigation continues on commission rogatory to determine their possible participation in other facts.
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