Gard the gendarmes seize 1,500 copies of luxury bags, clothing and shoes
Big and nice deal for the Gard gendarmes of the Bagnols research brigade and the Nîmes research section.
Since the start of the year and thanks to anonymous information, they have been discreetly investigating a large network of counterfeit products.Copies of luxury brands that bait the barges on social networks.The buyers then went to an appointment in a room, a real Ali Baba cave, located in a villa in Pont-Saint-Esprit.
During the investigations and for an unknown reason, the criminals then moved their illicit goods to a room located in a busy street in Bagnols-sur-Cèze.A premises searched Tuesday morning, as is a storage warehouse located in the south of the Ardèche.Customers went to Bagnols so, to buy the products falsely marked Dior, Dolce Gabana, Lacoste, Vuitton.Bags, clothes, shoes, real reproductions of real brands.
After several weeks of investigations, the gendarmes struck on Tuesday."50 soldiers from the Bagnols Company, the Gard group, but also of the Ardèche and Vaucluse gendarmes" were of morning release on Tuesday, according to commander Perrin, boss of the gendarmerie company in Bagnols.Four people were arrested.Three are currently in police custody and judicial information will be open this Thursday at the Nîmes courthouse.
Counterfeiting would cost France nearly 7 billion for the year 2019. In our business with more local dimensions, 1,500 copies of luxury products were seized by the investigators, helped by the GIR, the interministerial research group ... This cellis more particularly in charge of assessing and seizing the heritage of alleged offenders.Four values ... and not counterfeit have also been the subject of conservatory seizures, as well as two cars, and a few thousand euros on bank accounts."We are in charge of making a complete financial file", underlines the commander of the GIR, Emmanuel de Backer.
Among the three suspects that should be presented to an investigating judge in Nîmes tomorrow, "there is a network head responsible for finding the equipment.He is a man known to justice, especially for a heavy sanction linked to drug trafficking.Another suspect admitted to almost 2,500 euros per month by this traffic, "said the substitute Estelle Meyer, who has been piloting this survey for the Nîmes prosecutor's office since the start.
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