Vol de 200 kilos d'or ÃÂ* Marseille

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200 kg of gold stolen in a city in France . http://fr.news.yahoo.com/3/20100529/tfr-marseille-vol-or-56633fe.html

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Flight of 200 kilos gold in Marseilles: the hold-up men were “pros� who cleaned their traces

The hold-up men who concealed Thursday in Marseilles nearly 200 kilos of jewels and gold of a value estimated at 6,4 million euros, were professional truths “remarkably well informed� which took care to erase all their traces, explains one Saturday of source close to the investigation. To see the continuation the article

Bruno Franchini, the wholesaler in 47 year old jewels attacked in his Blackcurrant residence in the night of Wednesday to Thursday, was initially led in the hills of Ciotat (Rhone delta), so that it gives to them the secret codes of access to the trunks of his company. His wife and her two minors, old of 9 and 12 years, were also sequestered.

On the whole, the investigators estimate Saturday that between ten and twelve criminals took part in the operation. They were equipped with rifles of attack and handguns, all vêtus of black and were encagoulés, and carried bullet-proof jackets. But it is the procedure which holds more the attention of the police officers.

The robbers carried indeed, specifies one police source, aluminium gloves, in order to avoid any perspiration - which would have deposited DNA. They also asked their victims, children included/understood, to give them their clothing, which they sprinkled of bleach in order to make disappear any possible trace. They then cleaned the residence of the victims for the same reason. They finally took care not to use their personal cellphones not to be located by the terminal-relays, preferring to employ that their victims.

Of source close to the investigation, one evokes Saturday “a true blow of professionals, determined, calm and organized very well, by remarkably well informed authors�.

In turn, about thirty employees of the Franchini company, who came to take their work Thursday morning avenue of Prado, in the southern districts of Marseilles, “were carefully saucissonnés� by the criminals. The two vehicles of the couple, a Ford and a Mercedes, were found burnt in the department.

The investigation was entrusted to the repression brigade banditism of the interregional Management of judicial police (DIPJ) of Marseilles. Hearings of the witnesses and victims continued Saturday in the buildings of Evêché, the central police station of the city.

No interpellation took place for the moment.

The Franchini company, founded in 1994, employs 35 people. AP