Drunk, three young people try to steal a backhoe loader in the middle of the night and run away when the police arrive

Les trois jeunes ont été placés en garde à vue. MAXPPP – Mourad ALLILI

C'est une drôle d'intervention qu'ont connue les forces de l'ordre toulousaines dans la nuit de mercredi à jeudi : trois jeunes individus ont tenté de voler une tractopelle. 

In the Montaudran district, in Toulouse, a local resident was surprised to discover a large backhoe loader moving in the middle of the night, near a construction site, with no visible worker. Around one o'clock in the morning, on the night of Wednesday February 28 to Thursday February 29, this witness first contacted the gendarmerie, indicates La Dépêche du Noon.

These police officers finally quickly intervened on the scene where the machine and its new drivers were still located. When they arrived, the three young individuals abandoned the vehicle and tried to run away. Two of them were quickly caught, but the third, however, managed to escape. The two 23-year-old suspects ended the evening in a sobering-up cell at the central police station.

The return to work machine

A few hours later, the two men were heard this Thursday morning before investigators from the Right Bank judicial support group. With a clean criminal record, they should quickly be released after a simple reminder of the law.

Always according to La Dépêche du Midi, the construction machine for its part has not was damaged during its nighttime trip and found its location on the site before resuming work in the hands of experts this Thursday morning.