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This phenomenon is gaining momentum and is of growing concern to pharmacists: the upsurge in burglary of pharmacies. The Syndicat des Syndicats de Pharmaciens will send a circular on Tuesday to all pharmacies in Ile-de-France.
Dozens of pharmacies have been robbed since the beginning of the year, particularly in Ile-de-France.
Always the same profile
On the night of August 11th, Boris Robin's pharmacy was robbed by three young thugs, spotted by surveillance cameras: "On the visual side, these are people who are in their twenties, and they know exactly where they are. find the keys to the safe and they left with 8,000 euros "he testifies.
The same night, the neighboring pharmacy is also visited. And it's still young boys, aged 14 to 16, who measure an employee. The same reports to Poissy last week, Aulnay-Sous-Bois the day before yesterday, the entire Paris region passes. Boris Robin explains that the profiles are always the same: "Those who have acknowledged the facts are young people, often minors, undocumented and who have been promised documents in exchange for theft.
Young people enlisted
Olivier Peyroux, a sociologist and specialist in the monitoring of isolated migrant children, confirms: "These are young people, who often have very strong addictions and who are recovered by small networks to steal what is easier to sell: portable , cash. "
In the clinic robbed at Maisons-Laffitte, the young robbers did not touch the boxes of Subutex and Methadone, well-known substitutes for heroin, which were stacked just above the safe.