The police investigation since Monday night on fire and theft of a luxury car, Mercedes E 776 registered. A man attacked the owner Calebasses to 19 h, fleeing the vehicle, worth about Rs 2.7 million, which was found burned in a cane field in St Julien.
In his statement to the police recorded Monday night, the vehicle owner, a self-employed for 37 years, was telling her ordeal indicating that he was in his Mercedes, brown in color, which was parked in a lay-by to its warehouse located in the vicinity of the Ashram Calebasses.
At some point, the resident of Triolet had seen a suspicious man approaching his car. The individual was sprayed a substance in his eyes before hanging outside the vehicle. He took the cell phone and wallet containing Rs 3,000 from his victim before fleeing on board the car.
Shortly before 20h, police of Lallmatie recovered the Mercedes in flames in a cane field Richefonds, St-Julien. Every reason to believe that the suspect may have set fire to the vehicle to leave no trace back to its track. The victim, who suffered minor injuries, theft and assess the damage to about Rs 2.71 million. Police had made no arrests in this morning.
On the other hand, a car company executive was the target of a robbery in the day Monday. In a statement to police, the resident of Baie du Tombeau reported that at 14 h 30 he had parked his car in an underground car park in Port-Louis. Upon his return to 15 h, it was found that a sum of Rs 61,700 and several checks had been carried away. The owner would then realize that the car was not locked. An investigation is ongoing.
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