A 20 -year -old individual, arrested on Monday March 10, is suspected of fifteen burglaries in apartments where he entered the night by climbing the facade, up to high floors and sometimes in the presence of the occupants. The facts alleged against him were committed between August 2023 and October 2024, in Villeurbanne for thirteen of them, as well as in Lyon (3rd) and Vaulx-en-Velin.

Over the complaints, the investigators of the division ES have made a connection between several flights by climbing, the operating mode of which presented serious similarities. The survey progressed significantly when a bank card, stolen from one of the burglary victims, was used to pay without contact a phone recharge.

Employed in a hair salon

Thanks to this purchase, the line holder could be identified. He is a young Tunisian, an employee in a hair salon in the 3rd arrondissement, and saying herself homeless.

The geolocation of his phone made it possible to find that he had limited near the places of ten burglaries. Following the research mandate he was the subject, he was arrested this Monday and placed in police custody. The signaling carried out on this occasion established that its DNA corresponds to the genetic imprints noted at the scene of five other flights per climbing.

During his hearing, the young man first denied all the facts, before recognizing a game. This day he was referred to the judicial court for immediate appearance for climbing flights.