Collection vehicles seized, 300,000 euros in cash, luxury watches and bracelets… Ten people, including dockers and truck drivers, were taken into custody on Tuesday for thefts in containers from the port of Marseille, the prosecution said on Friday. , confirming information from the
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These employees of the Grand maritime port of Marseille are accused of having stolen and resold various objects from freight for a value estimated "provisionally" at more than 200,000 euros.
"More than 300,000 euros in cash, luxury watches and bracelets as well as eight vehicles including collection and luxury vehicles" were seized from their homes, said the Marseille prosecutor's office, which opened a judicial investigation for "theft in an organized gang, concealment in an organized gang and participation in a criminal association”.
The Grand Port Maritime de Marseille, which extends over an area equivalent to the city of Paris, welcomes nearly 10,000 ships each year.
It reached 1.5 million containers handled in 2021, a figure however far from the volumes of the major ports of northern Europe such as Rotterdam (Netherlands), which exceeded the 15 million container mark the same year.
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