At a time when gasoline and diesel are scarce commodities, some have decided to skip queuing at gas station pumps. During the night of Monday to Tuesday, in the industrial zone of Thibaud, in Toulouse, a heavy goods vehicle driver enters the enclosure of his road transport company, around 1 a.m., when he sees silhouettes. When he arrives, several men are busy with the trucks, with the aim of siphoning off the gasoline.
But the presence of the employee scared off the thieves without them being able to get the full blackjack. He calls the police. Quickly, the members of the anti-crime brigade spotted a parked vehicle a few hundred yards away and five men nearby.
The latter, aged 17 to 36, were arrested and placed in police custody. The minor received a summons before the juvenile judge, as for the four adults, they will have to explain themselves later during a hearing before the Court.
If cases of siphoning have been identified in recent days, they are not significantly increasing in the department of Haute-Garonne according to an echo from the gendarmerie.