France Info links, in the same account, the armed robbery of 3 November in Besançon, the theft of 20 to 50 kilos of gold, the thirteen arrests ordered by the anti-crime prosecutor’s office, and a crew that had been under surveillance for several months. The name Lahouari F. appears there in connection with the 2019 conviction and with the flight that preceded the opening of his trial.
Thirteen people were arrested after an operation ordered by the anti-crime prosecutor’s office. The number of arrests, thirteen, exceeds that of the five individuals who entered the premises in the early morning.
The youngest, Lahouari F., originally from Besançon, was sentenced in 2019 to 21 years in prison for the robbery of a jewelry factory. This sentence concerns a robbery that has already been tried, targeting a jewelry factory, and not, among the known facts, a new detail about the theft of 3 November.
On Tuesday, 3 November, in the early morning, five hooded and heavily armed individuals broke into a factory in Besançon (Doubs) that manufactures precious metals for jewelry. The intrusion targeted a site that produces metals intended for jewelry. The robbers stole between 20 and 50 kilos of gold. The haul therefore amounts to between about twenty and about fifty kilos of precious metal, or several dozen kilos taken from the factory.
The crew had been under surveillance for several months. This surveillance, which predated 3 November, preceded both the dawn robbery and the arrests that followed the operation by the anti-crime prosecutor’s office. He had fled just before the opening of his trial. The sentence of 21 years in prison is thus reported even though he had absented himself from the hearing before the trial had even begun.
These people are suspected of being the perpetrators of the robbery committed this Tuesday, 3 November, in Besançon, according to information reported by France Info. The suspicion concerns the intrusion into the factory and the theft of gold that followed.