A group of men stolen jewelry and eight paintings of a total of 300,000 euros from a 95-year-old woman from Son en Breugel at the end of April. The men occurred as police officers. In the television program Opsporing Verzocht, the real police show surveillance images of the stolen artworks and a gray van from the perpetrators on Tuesday.
The very elderly woman is called by a man on Friday evening, April 25. He acts as an agent and he tells the woman that criminals are aiming for her things. She must collect the jewelry of her deceased husband and herself. A colleague from the fake agent will come and pick up the things, the man promises.
The victim does not notice anything because the man on the phone knows how to tell details about her, such as the names of her children. He also says that he has already informed her son. Around midnight a man is at the door to pick up the jewelry.
The fake agent asks the woman if she has even more valuables at home. Unsuspectingly, she says that she still has eight paintings that are worth a lot of money. The woman is kept talking all night by the man. In the morning there is another fake agent at the door. He takes the paintings into a gray van.
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In the afternoon the woman tells the whole story to her son. With him a bell is ringing right away and he immediately calls the police. “They are really harrowing cases where people remain deprived and broken,” explains a police woman at Investigation Requested.
The police share images of the gray van and a description of the perpetrators. It concerns three or four suspects. They speak Dutch. One of the men has a Surinamese or Antillean background. The first man to get the jewelry is slim, long and has a light skin color. The second man who came to get the paintings is approximately 1.80 meters and he also has a light skin color.
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