80,000 Euros Worth of Bicycles Stolen in One Minute: Thieves Break in with a Tree Trunk but Are Now Facing Judge

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“Camera footage shows how they simply threw the bicycles into their van. There was no question of caution.” Three defendants received prison sentences from the court in Ypres for a burglary and theft at bicycle shop Gheysen Fietstechniek in Zonnebeke, West Flanders. The trio used a tree trunk to ram the door and then made off with eleven bicycles within a minute. “They knew exactly which models to take.”