A police armband. Drawing. – Witt – Sipa
Two forty-year-olds from Seine-Saint-Denis and a sixty-year-old were indicted in Toulouse and imprisoned for wanting to settle themselves, and radically, a dispute with bad paying tenants, according to revelations from La Dépêche du Midi.
The case was tied Thursday, May 20, around noon, in an apartment in Launaguet rented by a young couple in financial difficulty who had not paid their rent for two months. Two police officers – with official armbands, professional card, weapons on their belts and a bailiff’s notice – show up at the door to, they say, take the couple into police custody. Then the pseudo-officials change their mind and give the tenants an hour to pack up and leave the premises. Except that everything is wrong. The tenant is not fooled by threats and discreetly calls the gendarmes.
An investigating judge seized
It is the impostors who are finally placed in police custody, quickly joined by the owner, suspected of having sponsored them.
To shed full light on this case, the Toulouse public prosecutor’s office opened a judicial investigation, in particular for extortion.