Overview
- At about 5 a.m. on January 13 in Bonneuil-en-France, roughly ten masked assailants armed with axes intercepted two semis just after they left a logistics site.
- The drivers were bound and forced to drive around 15 kilometers to a spot under the A1 near the Francilienne, where the load was transferred to another truck and the victims were left in Épiais-lès-Louvres.
- The stolen cargo, described as Apple phones and computers, is valued at €4–5 million according to the Paris prosecutor’s office.
- The drivers, ages 43 and 66, were treated by emergency services, with one admitted in relative emergency to Gonesse hospital.
- The Paris JIRS opened an inquiry for organized kidnapping and armed robbery and assigned the case to the OCLDI and the national judicial police, with the thieves and cargo still at large in a context of rising high‑value freight thefts.