At Univert Green Mat, we have a certain sense of the formula! To the burglars who, during the night of Thursday to last Friday, tried to break into the premises located rue Mathieu Van Roggen in Sprimont, they sent the following short sentence on Facebook.
” Hello to you. The store is open from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. The time slot is long enough for you to want to visit us at 2:30 a.m. Also, you might not get good advice at that time…”
They also attached the image to the writing by broadcasting the images recorded by the surveillance cameras installed on their site.
Mode of operation
“Apparently, a first individual who was wearing a hoodie and a mask first showed up at the front door where we see him looking, several times, inside the building”, explains Véronique, employee within the “Univert Green Mat” store.
“He probably came to see the layout of the place. We then see him leave at the end of the car park and return, a few moments later, with a second individual who was wearing a cap. They had a crowbar and they tried to force the door of our workshop. »
Indeed, we see on the videos two busy guys for nearly three minutes trying to open this door. “It’s a reinforced anti-burglary door”, emphasizes Véronique again. “We have alarms and cameras everywhere. If they had managed to enter the workshop, the sirens would have sounded and the police would have been notified. »
Noting a certain helplessness, the two lads then looked around to see if they could not find “something” likely to blow up this reinforced door.
Left empty-handed
“They obviously didn’t find anything useful and we see them leave, running, and take back the car in which they had arrived and which was hidden behind”, continues Véronique. “It wasn’t until we got to the site on Friday morning that we saw that the door to the workshop was a bit bent. We then looked at the images from the cameras and we saw the different scenes. We then reported the facts and sent the videos to the police. »
Univert Green Mat is a store located in Sprimont which mainly sells tools and machines for gardening work but also some leisure items, always focused on the garden and its surroundings.
Then came this idea of publishing a short message for their burglars or future candidates. “It’s my boss’s idea. He submitted it to us and we found it very funny,” concludes Véronique.