Mohamed S., a career criminal known as “The Cat,” was imprisoned in Paris for stealing nearly €10 million during several roof burglaries in Paris that targeted high-profile celebrities, a Chinese Communist Party official, and a luxury handbag store where he absconded with €800,000 worth of goods.
Among the victims targeted by Mohamed S., who has 30 convictions on his record, are the television host Patrick Sébastien, the rapper Booba, and footballer Thiago Silva.
The Paris prosecutor’s office confirms that three additional people are also going to trial.
The 34-year-old man denies that he was involved in the robberies.
A source speaking to Le Monde said the damage he caused was enormous. The thief, who broke into luxury homes through roofs, gutters, and facades, was indicted for organized gang theft committed with violence and criminal conspiracy, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office.
The other three people in the case are two accomplices and a receiver of the stolen goods. All three are in pre-trial detention.
The thief and his crew used the “same procedure” each time they picked out a target, according to a source. The team would sneak through the roof and use a jammer to neutralize the alarms.
One of the burglaries dates from July 6, 2025, in a company specializing in the resale of luxury leather goods in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. More than €800,000 of luxury bags were stolen there.
A second robbery was committed with violence against a deputy of the Chinese Communist Party, in the 16th arrondissement, on Jan. 30. The victim, who tried to resist, was injured and was prescribed five days of total incapacity for work.
Mohamed S. and his crew are suspected of robbing the Chinese victim of €7.8 million, according to prosecutors. It is unclear how they extracted this large sum of money from the Chinese victim.
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— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) November 6, 2025Mohamed S. denied this case as well, saying: “I’ve never committed violent theft; I had nothing to do with it.
When the police confronted him with evidence, he told them, “You know, people climb on roofs every day.”
France has seen an incredible amount of high-profile home invasions targeting celebrities in recent years, as well as a wave of robberies and kidnappings targeting cryptocurrency firm founders and CEOs.
The founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov, went so far as to say that the wave of kidnappings is due to French tax officials selling the private data, such as personal addresses, to criminals.
“41 kidnappings of crypto holders in France in 3.5 months of 2026. Why? French tax officials selling crypto owners’ data to criminals (Ghalia C.) + massive tax database leaks. Now the state also wants IDs and private messages of social media users. More data = More victims,” he wrote.
41 kidnappings of crypto holders in France in 3.5 months of 2026.
Why?
🥖 French tax officials selling crypto owners' data to criminals (Ghalia C.) + massive tax database leaks.
Now the state also wants IDs and private messages of social media users.
More data = More victims.
— Pavel Durov (@durov) April 24, 2026Of course, other high-profile crimes like the Louvre robbery have also haunted France as of late, with that case also involving numerous men with a foreign migration background.
