Mechelen, The court has Tuesday morning arrest is to be extended from two Malinois young people, who are suspected of the robberies at pharmacy Multipharma. Detectives and court them currently link to eight facts: seven successful raids and one foiled attempt. The 19-year-old denies, the 20-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, there were in the radius of one km but less than eight robberies. With the arrest and detainment of the young men from Mechelen have officers and court, all these facts are presumably resolved.

bakery

Multipharma on the Battelsesteenweg was on February 12, the first pharmacy that them unwanted on the floor, and would later have on 1, 4 and 21 march by them to be deprived. Every time there was money from the cash register meegegraaid. There was also a pharmacy on the Hombeeksesteenweg on February 20, electrical shop Vanden Borre along the Guido Stipulating on march 13, and bakery Bread & Pastry in the Hoogstraat on march 22 robbery. That last fact previous Friday was around 6.45 pm place: a few hours after the last robbery on Multipharma and a few hours before their arrest. Then there was an attempted robbery on the supermarket Carrefour Express on the Battelsesteenweg frustrated.

The manager of Bread & Pastry is relieved that the suspects captured. “The fear was there since then, really,” she says. “For us, it was the bakery wasn’t open yet, but the door was loose. Suddenly someone came inside. On his head he wore a stocking which a hole for 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 money from the cash register and the contents of my handbag which I had to hand in a fabric pouch.”

Anklet

Since their arrest and voorleiding by magistrate Theo Byl last weekend, the two in the prison. Tuesday morning, they had for the judiciary to appear.

My client lives in the vicinity of that grocery store, comes there often and it was the day before that even cookies are going to buy. Why would he then attack?

Evelyn Jacobs

The advocate of the 19-year-old came to ask for her client’s release with an ankle bracelet. He denies his involvement. “Not only with regard to the robberies, but also the attempt. He lives in the neighborhood of that supermarket, 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.”

Ashamed for family

The court was ultimately not the question of an ankle bracelet. The detention was extended by a month. “My client is very impressed,” says Jacobs. “He sees the prison for the first time from the inside and is ashamed of especially sorry for his family.”

the 20-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, there were items found that are linked to the whole series of robberies. It includes a part of the loot and a backpack on multiple camera images to see before, during and after the robberies. The police found Friday with a weapon and a pet, both of which were left behind when the two were arrested.

Nekkerspoel

The investigation goes further, also to the robbery at the bakery Opsinjoor on January 13, in the district of Nekkerspoel. In that case, still no one picked up.