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Half-naked driver jumps van to stop thieves

A Polish van driver caught two thieves trying to steal his stock by jumping on top of their moving van in only his underwear.

Published: 10 December 2012 11:32 CET

While taking a break in a hotel room in Villemomble, north east of Paris, last Thursday, the driver saw two men acting suspiciously from his window.

He witnessed them looking at his van which contained a stock of shoes ready to be transported to England.

“One of the men was dressed in overalls and was keeping a look out while his accomplice forced open the victim’s van door,” said a source close to the case.

“The pair then grabbed several of the boxes of shoes and put them in another van before fleeing.”

The driver left his hotel room dressed in only his underpants, socks and a t-shirt to try and stop them.

Standing in front of the moving vehicle, he decided to jump on the hood, and crawled onto the roof while the van was still in motion.

The two men in the vehicle drove for a further kilometre through the town before getting blocked by traffic.

One of the men fled the scene as soon as the van stopped, while the other tried to bargain with the van driver, offering all his goods back if he let him go.

Police arrested the man as soon as they arrived on the scene and took him in for questioning.

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CRIME

Two girls wounded in knife attack outside French school

An assailant on Thursday wounded two girls aged 6 and 11 in a knife attack close to their school in the east of France and was later arrested, officials said.

Published: 18 April 2024 16:33 CEST
Two girls wounded in knife attack outside French school

The 11-year-old was stabbed outside the school in the town of Souffelweyersheim, on the outskirts of Strasbourg, while the six-year-old was attacked by the same man nearby.

Both received superficial wounds, police said, adding the attacker did not appear to have any known links to radicals and was not previously known to the security services.

Both received superficial wounds, police said, adding the attacker did not appear to have any known links to radicals and was not previously known to the security services.

Both girls are being treated in a paediatric hospital. Parents were later in the afternoon allowed to pick up their children, who had been confined to the school in the immediate aftermath of the attack.

The attacker, born in 1995, was arrested in the area where he attacked the second girl, the police said. He no longer had the knife in his hand and did not resist arrest, it added.

The attack came as Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced a series of measures aimed at cracking down on violence committed by schoolchildren against their peers. There was no indication so far that the attacker had a link with the school.

“I’m really scared. We’ve been reassured that the children are safe inside, but we don’t know when we’ll be able to get them back,” Sarah, a mother of an eight-year-old pupil, told AFP before the green light was given to collect the children.

“A friend called me. She saw the commotion in front of the school as she passed by. Her reflex was to call me so that I could pick up my son.”

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