Embarrassing fail: Police did not catch perpetrators of Budapest Louis Vuitton store despite their claim

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.

Police only caught the aiders of the Louis Vuitton store robbers

One of them carried away the loot wrapped in boxes in a taxi. According to RTL Klub, one denied all charges, while the other said he knew nothing about the content of the boxes he carried with the cab.

Mr Rab added it was easy to suspect that the two foreign nationals were the perpetrators after their place was raided by the police officers who found jewellery, handbags and other valuable items worth HUF tens of millions in their apartment.

However, authorities realised shortly after they announced the detention of two foreign nationals for the Louis Vuitton store robbery that they were not the perpetrators, so they made an embarrassing error. The two foreign nationals were probably only aiders. One of the lawyers of the two remaining in custody said the prosecutor’s suspicion is faulty. Both of them submitted an appeal against their pre-trial detention.

According to Blikk, a Hungarian tabloid, police are still searching for the perpetrators present in the footage they released about the robbery:

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Featured image: the two perpetrators