Crackdown within the Georgian Mafia. The police announced on Monday that they had arrested and indicted five people, suspected of being local officials of a network of thieves raging in Île-de-France. This network is linked to the Georgian Mafia called Vory V Zakone (Thieves in the Law).
At the end of 2020, the Val-d’Oise authorities noted “a serial phenomenon of aggravated theft” caused by criminals “in connection with a group of individuals of Georgian nationality established locally”, they reported in a press release. Surveillance operations revealed that teams of thieves, specializing in petty theft such as shoplifting, catalytic converters or burglaries, were operating under the direction of a “criminal organization affiliated with the Thieves in the Law.” “. “They commit low intensity acts, which are not punished in a very repressive way, but they do it industrially”, explains a police source.
Several other individuals arrested
After a year of work, investigators from the Central Office for the fight against itinerant delinquency (OCLDI) and the departmental security of Val-d’Oise proceeded Tuesday to the arrest of seven people, in the department and in Paris.
At the end of their police custody, five of them were indicted Friday by an examining magistrate of Pontoise on the counts of organized gang robbery and participation in a criminal association. Four were imprisoned, one placed under judicial supervision. According to the police source, the suspects are suspected of being the “managers” of the theft network in Val-d’Oise, “at least”.
In this criminal organization structured in an extremely pyramidal fashion, “you have flight team managers, then department managers, then regional managers. These people are going to be promoted, transferred, etc. », She detailed. Five teams of thieves were also arrested during the investigation. Due to the multiplicity of offenses, the total damage has yet to be determined by judicial information, specifies the Pontoise prosecutor’s office.