Embarrassing fail: Police did not catch perpetrators of Budapest Louis Vuitton store despite their claim
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We wrote earlier this week that unknown perpetrators robbed a Louis Vuitton store at 24 Andrássy Avenue, in Budapest’s downtown. The police found them in only 12 hours. However, authorities realized shortly after they announced the detention of two foreign nationals for the Louis Vuitton store robbery that they were not the perpetrators.
We wrote on Wednesday that two foreign nationals, a Montenegrin and a Croatian citizen, burgled a Budapest Louis Vuitton store by smashing its shop window in its entirety.
The suspects were not at the crime scene
Police said they needed only 12 hours to catch the perpetrators in an apartment in Budapest’s 7th district (Elizabethtown). According to their announcement, they found a cache of lavish handbags, sunglasses and belts with a combined worth in the HUF tens of millions.
The authorities detained both suspects on Monday evening, but it came to light quickly that they were not the real perpetrators.
According to 24.hu, the two foreigners stated they were not at the place of the robbery during the crime. Ferenc Rab, the deputy spokesperson of the Budapest Public Prosecutor’s Office, said the arrested Montenegrin and Croatian nationals helped the robbers hours after the burglary.
