Nantes: Customers at a Carrefour City store fight off a robber armed with a knife
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The failed attempt, which took place on Saturday evening, did not cause any injuries. It was the fourth episode of a supermarket robbery in two weeks in the Nantes metropolitan area.
A breath of fresh air in the dark series. For once, a mini-market robbery was narrowly avoided in Nantes (Loire-Atlantique). On Saturday, early in the evening, the Carrefour City on rue Guillaume Grootaers was still bustling with customers when an armed individual entered the store. However, events did not take the expected turn.
With his face masked and a knife in his hand, the man approached the cash registers of this supermarket, located in the north of the city of the dukes, threatening the employees and ordering them to give him the cash at their disposal. The ruckus immediately attracted the attention of the customers of Carrefour City who flocked to the entrance of the store. Coming to the aid of the threatened employees, they pushed back the masked individual, who had to flee, penniless, around 8:30 p.m., report our colleagues at Presse Océan .
The altercation did not cause any injuries. Saturday night's incident was the fourth robbery of convenience stores in Nantes in the space of two weeks. Two of the three previous episodes also targeted Carrefour stores. The same modus operandi unites these robberies, each time carried out by a masked man, armed with a knife and acting quickly, demanding the cash drawer.
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In the event of a new incident of the same type, in the presence of customers, the interdepartmental management of the national police asks any witnesses not to intervene and to call 17 as quickly as possible, without putting themselves in danger.
Before this series of supermarket robberies, another gang of thieves had taken a liking to the pharmacies in the Nantes metropolitan area. Six young people aged 13 to 19 were arrested at the end of January, after having accumulated a booty of more than 6,000 euros by stealing the cash registers of sixteen pharmacies. The suspects turned out to be young Roma delinquents already well known to the police and the courts.
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