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An Octagenary Sells His Mercedes and Steals It Six Months Later: the Man Had Not Told the Seller that He Had Kept a Double of the Keys

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In June 2024, a man sold his car while keeping a double of the keys. Six months later, he decided to steal the vehicle. Trapped by the courts, the defendant was convicted.
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There are so many unusual facts that they immediately attract curiosity. The story of a Swiss retired man and his Mercedes-Benz 350 SL is one of them, mixing audacity, recklessness and judicial consequences. In Basel, Switzerland, an unusual case recently covered the chronicle. A 81-year-old retired man, after selling his Mercedes-Benz 350 SL for the sum of 20,000 Swiss francs in June 2024, decided six months later to recover the vehicle by a pr…

In Basel, a 81-year-old Swiss retiree imagined a totally unusual scheme. After selling his Mercedes SL 350 for a little over 21,000 euros, he decided to keep a double of the keys. According to the media 20min.ch, several months later, he returned to pick up his German car as if it still belonged to him. A rock plan around a Mercedes SL 350 In June 2024, the Basel octogenary handed over his Mercedes-Benz SL 350 to an individual from Therwil, Swit…

In June 2024, a man sold his car while keeping a double of the keys. Six months later, he decided to steal the vehicle. Trapped by the courts, the defendant was convicted.

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midilibre.fr broke the news in on Wednesday, September 3, 2025.
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