To be a burglar today is not an easy job
By topffer
@topffer (42156)
France
July 10, 2014 11:20am CST
A DNA database of criminals exists since many years in France, but there is only 2 or 3 years that the French police takes DNA samples when a burglary is committed. A DNA analysis costs a lot of money, sometimes more than the real cost of a burglary, but it makes the job of burglars more and more difficult.
By example, last week, one of them was sent for 8 months to jail in Blois because his DNA was found on a sheet of toilet paper (I am sure he has learned now to flush the toilet 
), and another one is waiting in jail in the near city of Orléans for his trial, after the DNA print of his... ears was found on the door of several burglarized apartments (he was listening to doors before forcing them). He has asked for a delay to prepare his defense. If he can give a clear explication about what were doing his ears near these doors the justice will certainly not be deaf 
These guys should better take advantage of their sentence to move into another job.
), and another one is waiting in jail in the near city of Orléans for his trial, after the DNA print of his... ears was found on the door of several burglarized apartments (he was listening to doors before forcing them). He has asked for a delay to prepare his defense. If he can give a clear explication about what were doing his ears near these doors the justice will certainly not be deaf
These guys should better take advantage of their sentence to move into another job.
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@Misterbull (97)
• Maldives
11 Jul 14
Lucky to be an islander...The population here is only 2324 people and the thieves are known and if something is stolen we go to them ask their mother to give the stolen item and she will check if it is not there she will say ''Go to the remaining thieves and the item would be found''...
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@topffer (42156)
• France
12 Jul 14
Hello MrWit, nice to see you 
. It is a possible method for habitual offenders, certainly as good as DNA tests for you, but with the same problem : if the thief is not in a database of thieves, it can take years to catch him (the one with the DNA on a sheet of paper has been arrested in 2014 for another offense, and it was in 2011 that he forgot to flush the toilet during a burglary).
. It is a possible method for habitual offenders, certainly as good as DNA tests for you, but with the same problem : if the thief is not in a database of thieves, it can take years to catch him (the one with the DNA on a sheet of paper has been arrested in 2014 for another offense, and it was in 2011 that he forgot to flush the toilet during a burglary).