2023-10-24 12:39:45
Stunned passers-by stop in front of the window. “Who can be crazy enough pour steal these things when there are cameras everywhere?”says a passerby, shaking her head.
A question that the technical and scientific police investigators, working for a good part of the day in the Apple store in Aix-en-Provence, undoubtedly asked themselves…
But it is clear that it did not cross the minds, or without stopping them in their misdeed, of the men – probably four – who forced the door of the apple store.
“Important work of viewing images”
According to the first elements collected on site, around 3 a.m. this Tuesday, October 24, the group forced one of the side doors of the Apple store, without however breaking it. Then they managed to enter the premises and steal the demonstration objects that were on the exhibition banks (mainly iPhones and iPads) and leave just as dry, with this loot.
“The damage is significant“, only said Commissioner Groisne while the investigators, still on site, carried out multiple surveys.
Despite our numerous requests, neither the manager of the Aix store nor the American firm answered our questions regarding this incredible intrusion.
“From now on, significant work on viewing images will undoubtedly allow us to progress in our investigative work.“, further underlined the representative of the police. Cameras crisscross both the public space, that is to say, the very busy Place de la Rotonde, and the interior of this shop, so much criticized in the time.
The 17th Apple store in France opened its doors on June 14, 2014, in place of the old tourist office. The walls were then bought in 2011 for 10 million euros by the discreet Aix businessman, Stéphane Groscolas.
Systematic deactivation
This transaction with the City then hit the headlines, both for the amount – the Domaines had estimated the price of the whole at 4 million – and for the architecture within the protected area and under the supervision of the architects of the buildings of France.
“Glass walls, a very thin roof which gives the impression of floating, a space designed in horizontal lines” described the American firm’s marketing services at the time. Until then, the places had only been the target of spray paint and other collages of anti-globalization activists, or even yellow vests, but never burglaries.
A state of affairs which can be explained by the impossibility of reusing items stolen from Apple stores. Faced with intrusions of this type in other establishments, Apple has announced for several years that it systematically deactivates stolen devices remotely.
They can be traced, only have a modified version of IOS preventing them from functioning normally and for some they even display an alert message asking to be taken back to an Apple store.
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