Five men aged 19 to 22 were arrested and taken into police custody overnight from Monday to Tuesday in Val-de-Marne for selling gasoline on the sly amid a fuel shortage, indicated Tuesday the parquet floor of Créteil. Equipped with twenty cans, a 20-year-old man offered gasoline at 3.50 euros per liter in Arcueil (Val-de-Marne), according to the prosecution confirming information from BFMTV.
Four others, aged 19 to 22, were also arrested in Créteil near a gas station, in possession of two 50-litre cans. All five were taken into custody.
A “gasoline sales system in front of a station”
In addition, in Villiers-le-Bel (Val-d’Oise), young people from the Traverse district briefly set up a “petrol sales system in front of a station” on Monday, according to a police source. . They went back and forth between the station and the city with cans and offered to motorists who were in the queue to sell them gasoline, said this source. One person was arrested.
In the Val-d’Oise, the weekend had already been marked by disputes between motorists in service stations. On Saturday, “a gas station attendant was manhandled by a motorist who tried to hit him with a hammer because a nurse had overtaken him in the queue”, according to another police source. A fuel theft also took place overnight from Saturday to Sunday at the Argenteuil hospital, near Paris, where the tanks of seven medical vehicles were siphoned off.