Jewellery worth 500,000 euros stolen

Published January 19, 2002

PARIS, Jan 18: Three masked men rammed their car into a jewellery shop in Paris on Thursday and made off with jewels worth an estimated 500,000 euros, police said.

The thieves drove their car into the door of a shop close to the capital’s posh Champs Elysees before smashing the display cases with axes and running off with all they could grab.

The store’s owner hid in the shop during the heist, frozen with fear, according to police reports. Police have opened an investigation into the daring heist, calling it “a big and audacious theft” they believe was committed by professional thieves. —AFP

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