Neuilly-sur-Seine: Dayot Upamecano’s apartment robbed, two men arrested

2023-09-02 09:17:17

It is difficult to say that the burglars specifically targeted the apartment of Dayot Upamecano, defender of the French football team and Bayern Munich. But certainly, the situation of the triplex of the international player, in a chic avenue of Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts-de-Seine), can only stir up greed.

Those suspected of this fric-frac, committed on July 26, have just been arrested by the Hauts-de-Seine departmental judicial police service, indicted and imprisoned. It is more exactly two suspects, two young men from Seine-Saint-Denis aged 17 and 23, who were arrested. But the night of the heist, there were three of them in the footballer’s apartment and a fourth man was waiting for the burglars outside.

At the end of July, Dayot Upamecano was not in the triplex, his pied-à-terre in Paris, regularly occupied on the other hand by the footballer’s mother and brother. Around 4 a.m., intrigued by strange noises, the player’s mother gets out of bed and in the darkness of the apartment, finds herself facing three guys dressed in dark, gloved and hooded.

Phones, bank cards and luxury watches

One of them even holds a handgun, which he does not brandish. The brother gets up in turn, also faces the burglars. The victims then take refuge in a room, while the criminals disappear. With several telephones, a computer, bank cards and luxury watches. Only items belonging to the footballer’s brother.

The car with which the criminals fled, filmed by the city’s surveillance cameras, had already been spotted on previous burglaries. At least two. One in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, committed four days before the burglary of Upamecano’s apartment. On July 17, it was in a restaurant in Rueil-Malmaison that the same vehicle had been used by burglars, who had stolen the recipe for a good week of activity: some 40,000 euros and the restaurateur’s Rolex, which would have in passing received a blow from the rifle butt.

Arrested earlier this week, the two suspects were indicted on Thursday as part of the judicial investigation opened for burglary in an organized gang and intentional violence. The investigations are continuing, both to find their accomplices and to seek their possible participation in other similar acts.