Police were alerted at around 6.10pm on Friday after a person reported their mobile phone had been stolen on Rue des Capucins in Luxembourg City. According to initial reports, the victim had been sitting on a low wall when the suspect approached, snatched the phone, and attempted to run away. However, several bystanders witnessed the incident, intervened, and managed to restrain the suspect until police arrived.
When officers checked the man's background, they discovered he was suspected of having committed another theft in a perfume store shortly beforehand, and he had also allegedly been active earlier that same afternoon in a shopping centre at Cloche d'Or. The public prosecutor's office ordered the suspect's arrest, and he appeared before an examining magistrate on Saturday morning.
