Mechelen chambers in Mechelen this morning the arrest is to be extended from two young people who are suspected of the robberies at pharmacy Multipharma. Detectives and court them currently links eight facts. It comes to seven effective robberies and one attempt. The youngest denies, the twenty-year-old gives the facts.
After more than a month and a half the pharmacists and other shopkeepers in the vicinity of the Battelsesteenweg gradually start breathing. Since 12 February this year, there were in the radius of one km but less than eight offences committed. With the arrest and detention of a nineteen-year-old and a twenty-year-old suspect from Mechelen, officers and court, all these raids presumably resolved.
Multipharma was the first pharmacy that them on the floor, and would bring them later, three other times to visit. Every time there was a sum of money from the cash register robbed. There was also a pharmacy on the Hombeeksesteenweg, Vanden Borre along the Guido Stipulating and bakery Bread & Pastry in the Hoogstraat robberies. That last found last Friday around 6.45 pm. A few hours after the last robbery at Multipharma, and a few hours before their arrest for the attempt on the Carrefour supermarket.
Relieved
“The bakery was not yet open but the door was loose,” says the manager. “Suddenly someone came inside with a stocking over his head where one eye was cut out. He asked the contents of the safe. But we don’t have that. In the end, the robber on the run with the contents of the register, and the contents of my handbag which I had to hand in a fabric pouch.” At the bakery they react, relieved at the arrest of possible suspects. “The fear was there since then, really”, concludes the manager.
Anklet
Since their arrest and their voorleiding by magistrate Theo Byl last weekend, the two suspects in the prison. This morning, they had for the judiciary to appear. The advocate of the nineteen-year-old came to ask for her client’s release with an ankle bracelet. He denies his involvement. “Not only the robbery but also the attempt. He lives in the neighborhood of that supermarket, he comes there often and it was the day before that even cookies are going to buy. Why would he then attack”, asked master, Evelyn Jacobs. “In addition, he has a clean record and he never came in contact with the police and courts.”
clean criminal Record
the twenty-year-old has a clean criminal record. Allegedly, he would now have passed to confessions. Against him is the burden of proof according to sources the greatest. During searches, several items found, which are linked to the whole series of robberies. It includes a part of the loot, a backpack that has multiple camera images to see before, during and after the robbery but also a weapon and a pet that was used and left behind was the two Friday were arrested.
Maintained
The council chamber was not in on the question of an ankle bracelet. The detention was extended by a month. “My client is very impressed,” concludes Jacobs. “He sees the prison for the first time from the inside and is ashamed of especially sorry for his family.” The investigation into the robberies is now going further. Also the investigation of the robbery at the bakery Opsinjoor on January 13, in the district of Nekkerspoel. In that case, still no one picked up.
