A 39-year-old man was sentenced by the Mulhouse court to five years in prison for stealing cash deposited in the bank by customers.
Six months' imprisonment for refusing to submit to an identity check was added to the penalty, reports
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After his suspicious behavior was spotted near a bank in Rixheim (Haut-Rhin) last year, the individual had indeed stood up to the police.
Intercepted in possession of all his equipment
He was eventually arrested because tools, tape, fishing lines and hooks, bags and aluminum plates had been found on him and in his car.
This is the equipment that the 30-something used to extract from the secure box of the banks the envelopes of cash that the account holders slip there.
The man thus seized almost 50,000 euros in a few days during the summer of 2020 in the Haut-Rhin and the Bas-Rhin.
He is also suspected of having stolen an additional 48,000 euros in the same way but these facts could not be proven.
The mis en cause appearing detained following other convictions affirmed to have acted to help the banks to identify the weak points of the device of deposit of liquid to then advise them.
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