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FILE Nº 014–CFConfidential

Client

The habit that undid the system

A property near Monaco had a genuinely capable alarm system — tens of thousands of euros of equipment, correctly wired, properly maintained. It had been specified by an automation contractor: the kind who installs electric gates and roller shutters to a high standard, but isn't trained to interrogate how a family actually lives in a house. Nobody had asked about the cat. The family had ruled out a cat flap on aesthetic grounds, so every summer they left a small skylight cracked open instead, letting the animal in and out without waking the house. The perimeter zone covering that window stayed disarmed for the season — a habit, not a decision anyone had consciously made. It was through that same window that the intrusion came. The father woke to find the team already in the parental suite. They fled the moment he stirred — the encounter never escalated further, but the damage was already irreparable. A security specialist doesn't just wire a system — they interview the household until the small, easily-dismissed habits surface: the window left open, the zone quietly disarmed, the seasonal routine nobody thought to mention. The fix here wasn't new hardware — it was a pet-aware zone configuration, installed in under a day. The lesson behind it is the one that matters: a system is only as good as the questions asked before it's switched on.

AuditBehavioral

FILE Nº 021–CSConfidential

Client

The reconnaissance before the attempt

A secondary residence, secured under a standard protection mandate — until the underlying situation surfaced. Our principal held sole custody of his son under a European court ruling; his estranged spouse held a contrary custody decision in their country of origin. The risk was concrete: a parental abduction attempt, aimed at moving the child across a border where a different court would recognize her claim, not his. Our team identified a reconnaissance pattern — individuals surveilling both the residence and the locations where the teenager kept a regular schedule, at hours consistent with a snatch-and-move operation rather than casual observation. Plates, faces, and timing were documented; coordination with legal counsel and law enforcement followed immediately. The attempt never reached execution stage. It was disrupted during reconnaissance — the phase before an abduction, not during one.

Counter-surveillanceFamily

FILE Nº 026–EVConfidential

Client

The door he used every morning

A Riviera business owner leaving for work through a side entrance — the one he used daily, not the property's main gate — was met by an armed team already inside. He was taken to the safe at gunpoint, his family present in the house. A valuable collection was removed. The team left the way they'd come, avoiding the majority of the property's surveillance coverage entirely. What became clear in review: the operation relied on detailed intelligence — the property's interior layout, its exterior blind spots, and the principal's own morning routine, down to the specific door he used and the time he used it. Our response covered every layer at once: a full technical security review across the principal's property and those of his immediate family, a dedicated security driver during the acute period, permanent residential security installed at both properties, and a counter-surveillance investigation to reconstruct how the intelligence had been gathered in the first place.

Critical Site SecurityHome Jacking

FILE Nº 032–SDConfidential

Client

The car that was not the car

A household assistant was collected by a vehicle whose plate did not match the booking issued that morning. Our driver verified before doors opened, held the movement, and confirmed the substitution had never been authorised by the operator. The journey continued twelve minutes late, in the correct vehicle.

Security driversVerification

FILE Nº 037–RPConfidential

Client

An empty villa that looked occupied on schedule

A seasonal property in Saint-Tropez stood empty nine months a year with a presence pattern any observer could learn in a week: same caretaker hour, same lights, same shutters. We rebuilt the pattern to be irregular and human, and staffed the shoulder weeks when the coast is quiet and estates are most exposed.

Residential protectionSaint-Tropez

FILE Nº 041–CMConfidential

Client

Two hours' notice, one rehearsed sequence

A credible threat reached a principal late in the evening. The response plan written four months earlier — call order, safe location, medical route, counsel and staff instructions — was activated with two hours' notice. Nothing had to be improvised, because the sequence had already been rehearsed twice with the principal.

Crisis managementRehearsed plan

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