2023-12-01 17:21:00
The images, captured by passers-by, are striking and chilling. The videos circulating on the social network Facebook, posted by ordinary people and widely relayed, are like witnessing the live robbery of the Peters jewelry store, Place de l’Ange, on Thursday. A rare and frightening viewing that was not cinema.
The young age of the robbers who attacked the windows, in broad daylight, under the stunned gaze of dozens of passers-by and potential witnesses, is striking, just as their amateurism is astounding. They look like kids, certainly hooded and armed (perhaps with toys?), losing control and running off like rabbits, caught red-handed, no longer controlling anything of their initial plan.
According to the police, there were five of them. In the videos, we clearly see three of them, two of whom are being attacked.
One seems to be keeping watch, very stressed by the turn of events, while a second, straight out of the shattered windows, jumps onto the ground with some loot, but slips and sprawls on the broken glass before getting up and running away. At this point, it’s safe and sound.
One of the videos, where the image moves in all directions, even leads one to think that the image-taker is in a struggle.
The robbers probably could not have expected the reckless intervention of a few passers-by, unless they were plainclothes police officers. A doubt remains. In any case, their muscular intervention had the effect of causing the flight to fail.
In another video, glass breaking sounds. Someone shouts: Police! But no weapons are displayed. One of the suspects, remaining near the half-lowered shutter, begs one of these citizens to release his comrade, pinned to the ground, “Sir, sir please, please, let go of him, I don’t want to die.”
In the following sequence, we see the terrified young man in turn taking punches. “Stop, stop, I don’t want to die,” he screams louder, before appearing to whine.
Arrested 7 minutes after the theft
The Namur police, in a press release released on Friday, confirmed that the armed robbery was indeed committed on Thursday, at 2:33 p.m., in a jewelry store on Place de l’Ange. That five individuals perpetrated this crime.
Furthermore, this could not have come at a worse time for the perpetrators of this senseless theft committed in the middle of the afternoon; an operation to secure the city center was underway at the time of the events, as the police schedule several times a month. With the consequence that many police officers already deployed in the city were able to converge quickly towards the Place de l’Ange, immediately joined by the guard teams of the Intervention-Police Rescue Service. “The responsiveness and speed of the teams made it possible to arrest 4 individuals on the run within 7 minutes following the armed robbery,” jointly write Étienne Gaublomme, King’s Prosecutor of Namur, and Olivier Libois, head of the police force. the Namur Capitale police zone.
To ensure their exfiltration from the city center, the gang had posted a vehicle, which was located and seized. According to our information, the thugs are from Brussels.
Four individuals were therefore deprived of their liberty while a fifth, perhaps the driver of the car, is actively sought.
The victims, the jewelry store staff, were shocked and were immediately taken care of by the police victim assistance service.
The four people arrested were brought before an investigating judge, who should charge them with violent robbery, carrying weapons and using a vehicle to flee.
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