This heavyweight with the doors wide open challenged the gendarmes who were passing by.
On the night of Tuesday and Wednesday, the soldiers put an end to the funny merry-go-round of two men on a rest area in Vallet (Loire-Atlantique) in the Nantes vineyards.
As the
Ouest-France
newspaper reports
, it was around 2:30 am when the friends were surprised as they stole many cases of Muscadet from a truck driver, asleep in his cabin.
They abandon their full car
In total, no less than 37 cases, or 222 bottles of wine, were found in the car of the two thieves, who crossed the four lanes on foot before fleeing.
An investigation around the abandoned vehicle was opened to try to find them, specifies the daily.
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Nantes
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