In Poland, a Ukrainian was given 7 years for a spectacular robbery of a jewelry store
A district court in Warsaw sentenced a 36-year-old Ukrainian citizen to 7 years in prison. Evgeniy K, who was accused of breaking into a jewelry store in the Arkadia shopping and entertainment center in Warsaw and stealing jewelry worth over 700 thousand zlotys. The man must also partially compensate for the losses caused to the jewelry salon and pay almost 380 thousand (more than 88 thousand euros) zlotys, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
About it Radio Poland reports.
The prosecutor's office accused the 36-year-old citizen of Ukraine of sneaking through a ventilation shaft using a rope into a jewelry store in the Arkadia shopping and entertainment center on the night of November 26-27, 2017 and stealing jewelry worth approximately 720 thousand zlotys (167 thousand). Euro). It is known that he acted together with “another unidentified attacker named Oleg.”
“In this case, it cannot be said that it was a simple burglary. (...) The accused demonstratively entered the jewelry salon in the Arkadia shopping center,” commented Judge Trishkevich.
The only mitigating circumstance was the defendant's previous criminal record in Poland.
The court justified the severity of the punishment by the degree of social harm committed by the citizen of Ukraine.
The only trial took place on March 22. The accused, a carpenter by profession, then admitted his guilt. He said that the initiator of the penetration was Oleg, to whom he gave the stolen jewelry. According to him, he allegedly met Oleg in a hostel.
After filing the indictment, the prosecutor's office said that the 36-year-old man disappeared into a technical room in one of the toilets while the shopping center was still open. There he had previously prepared the tools for penetration. After the center closed, the man climbed into a ventilation shaft in the suspended ceiling, from where he entered the jewelry store. He climbed down the rope and pulled out from the table the key to the safe in which the jewelry was kept. The attacker collected valuable items and cash. He returned through the ventilation shaft to the toilet, where he waited until the morning for the opening of the shopping center. Then the man left the building.
The main trace left by the criminal was a rope with traces of epidermis and hair. “Based on the results of the DNA study, it was discovered that the profile of the criminal entered into the system by the Polish police corresponds to the DNA profile of the criminal in Germany entered by Evgeniy K. The man was also wanted in Germany on the basis of a European Arrest Warrant,” the prosecutor’s office said.
Suspicions were also confirmed by further DNA tests from bottles and clothes that Evgeniy K. left in the shopping center. His shoes and fingerprints also gave him away. In addition, the man was also recorded by a CCTV camera. In the video, he bought rope in the Arkadia center and came to the jewelry store before breaking in.
The man was detained when he returned from Ukraine to Poland in June last year. He was detained by border guards on the basis of a German arrest warrant. Then the prosecutor's office in Warsaw summoned him for questioning and filed charges.
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