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PARIS, Feb. 14 – The driver of a French van, who stole about three million euros, managed to hide half of his journey before being arrested, police said.
Adrien Derbez, 27, disappeared at the wheel of his armored car Monday morning, leaving two colleagues stranded in front of a Western Union office in Aubervilliers, a northern suburb of Paris.
The armored van of the Loomis company was found shortly after, a few blocks away, doors wide open, but without pockets of money.
Derbez was arrested Tuesday in the city of Amiens, 160 km north of Paris, after jumping out a window as police broke into an apartment where he was hiding.
The police also arrested the owner of the apartment with his brother.
The Parisian The newspaper reported today that the police had found money in a car in which an unidentified man and woman had fled the area. But after carefully counting the costs, they realized that about half of the estimated 3.1 million euros were still missing.
"More than half" of the money has still not been recovered, police told AFP.
The flight resembled that committed by another French armored van driver in November 2009.
Toni Musulin also fled into his van, taking away some 11.6 million euros in cash collected in a building at the Banque de France in Lyon.
He was caught shortly afterwards and much of the money that he had hidden behind a double wall in a garage was recovered.
He served four years in prison and was released in 2013. But nearly 2.5 million euros of this money have never been recovered.
A film about the case, called 11.6, was released in 2013. – AFP
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