On the night of Monday to Tuesday, the warehouse of the ski manufacturer Rossignol located in Saint Etienne de Saint Geoirs was attacked by a dozen robbers who left with clothes and ski equipment, for an amount estimated at several tens of thousands of euros, as revealed this Wednesday, the Dauphiné Libéré in its columns.
The investigation was entrusted to the Saint Marcellin gendarmerie company. The criminals neutralized the security guard, without exercising physical violence. The agent was forced to deactivate the alarm and the thieves went straight into the warehouse with their cars to load their loot more quickly.
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The thugs were obviously acting for a sponsor. The material will undoubtedly be resold on the black market or abroad. It must be said that at this moment, because of the health crisis, ski and mountain equipment is sometimes out of stock and the winter season is in full swing. The demand is therefore there and so are customers.
The Rossignol group has of course filed a complaint but declined to comment, arguing that a gendarmerie investigation was underway. It is the first time that he has suffered such a burglary.