Thieves have last year to 154 million euros of bikes stolen in our country. That report mobiliteitsorganisatie Touring on the basis of figures from the police. The thieves target individuals and fietsenwinkels. Often they go during the day already exploring. That has VTM NEWS ourselves: their cameraman crossed the man, who the following night, two bikes would steal.
Last year, thieves run off with 33.186 cycling. Because more and more electric bikes, walk, amounts to theft. Last year it went all together to eur 154 million.
While the cameraman last Saturday in bike shop iBike in Wilrijk, filming how you with a sturdy bike lock can prevent that your bike is stolen, one of the thieves happen to be filmed. The next morning, be there in a different branch of iBike, this time in Deurne, two expensive mountain bikes stolen. The bikes have a total value of 7,000 euros.
“I heard an alarm go off and I immediately came here,” says Nick Poelemans of the bike shop. “Two bikes were by the window.”
The sellers see the man on the camera images of Saturday and the seller from Wilrijk to recognize the man. He saw him when he us an interview he gave about the bike lock. The man seems to be so in both shops in advance on prospecting are gone. He crosses even our camera but pulls himself there is nothing. He tried at night also in Wilrijk to break, but that failed.
