A few weeks after being the victim of the theft of his motorcycle, a man from Troyes (Aube) recognized his machine on the free classifieds site Leboncoin.
After which the owner of the Yamaha YZF 450, stolen last June, decided to impersonate a buyer, reports Actu.fr.
Very quickly, he obtained an appointment with the suspected thieves in the parking lot of a shopping center in Lieusant (Seine-et-Marne). But before going there, the bogus buyer alerted the police, who were dispatched to the scene at the same time as him.
three individuals arrested
Once there, on August 28, the police managed to arrest the receiver, while he invited the victim to move away from the surveillance cameras. Two other individuals who performed rodeos on unlicensed two-wheelers were also arrested.