He was not the ideal target. This Monday morning at dawn, around 6 a.m., a resident of burglar-and-overpowers-him-with-a-judo-hold/” title=”he chases his burglar and overpowers him with a judo hold”>Juvisy-sur-Orge (Essonne) was awakened by noises in his home. He then leaves his bed and goes downstairs to check that no one has entered his home. There, he comes face to face with a burglar.
Panicked, the suspect flees and starts running in the street. But that was without taking into account the determination of the victim, who does not disassemble and pursues him on the public highway. According to a police source, he then tackled him to the ground after a few meters, then mastered him thanks to his experience in judo.
Arrested with the victim’s jacket and wallet
After a few minutes, he is joined by the agents of the national police, required for a burglary in progress. The police arrested the suspect, on whom were found the jacket of the resident, a camera and his wallet. The burglar was taken into custody on Monday.
In 2016, a parish priest from Seine-Saint-Denis had tackled the ground and mastered his burglar in the presbytery in Drancy. The thief had hit the priest several times on the head with a broken bottle. Without suspecting that the priest had some rudiments of judo.
