An apartment for rent.
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Mario Fourmy - Sipa
All visited the same apartment, paid the deposit but none has ever moved into the famous T4 in the Patte-d'Oie district in Toulouse.
Investigators from the Mirail police station placed the 40-year-old man in custody on Tuesday, already detained at the Seysses remand center for other facts, who had placed the rental advertisement on Le Bon Coin.
Between July and September 2020, he showed the places, which actually belonged to his in-laws, to at least 17 identified victims.
Students or families
The bogus landlord offered shared rooms to students and the entire apartment to families.
He collected on average, by check or by transfer, 800 euros deposit before informing those interested that the property was unfortunately no longer available.
And the hypothetical tenants never saw their money again.
From a police source, the man, known to the services for other scams, admitted the facts and explained them by a bad financial past.
He will appear on March 15 before the criminal court for this housing scam.
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Police
Investigation
Immovable
Fraud
Toulouse