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Art Crime Detective Returns Rare Sculpture To France 50 Years After Heist
A Dutch art detective has returned a rare Roman statue that was considered one of France's most important treasures to the museum from which it was stolen nearly 50 years ago.
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Saudi Princess Robbed Of Euro 600,000-Luxury Belongings In Paris Heist
Thieves have taken some 600,000 euros worth of high-end goods from the Paris home of a Saudi princess, a source close to the case said on Friday.
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Up to 26 million Euros Stolen In French Van Heist
An armoured van was held up in Switzerland by masked men whose accomplices had taken the daughter of one of the security guards hostage in neighbouring France, police in the Swiss canton of Vaud said on Friday.
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Cannes 2017: Did You Know That The Biggest Jewel Heist Ever Happened Here?
Cannes 2017: From the dawn of cinema, when the Lumiere brothers shot their first short reels by its glittering shore, the Cote d'Azur has always attracted filmmakers
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How Elite Forces Down Burgers To Foil A McDonald's Heist
When two men decided to rob a McDonald's in eastern France they hadn't expected to come face to face with a table of hungry soldiers from an elite military force.
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Another heist in France, jewellery worth $2.6 million stolen
Four men rammed their car into an upmarket jewellery store in central Paris on Monday, smashing the shop window and making off with a two-million-euro ($2.6-million) booty, a police source said.
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Another jewellery heist on the French Riviera: police
In a week of jewellery heists on the French Riviera, another theft has been reported at the billionaires' resort of the Hotel de Saint Jean Cap Ferrat, east of Nice, police said Saturday.
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$136 million. The big diamond robbery
A lone man wearing gloves, a cap, and a scarf to mask his face sneaked into a diamond show in a luxury Cannes hotel and made off with some $136 million of loot, a French state prosecutor said today - more than twice the initial estimated take from the weekend hold-up.
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$53 million worth of jewels stolen from Cannes hotel
An armed man stole jewels with an estimated value of 40 million euros ($53 million) in a brazen heist in broad daylight at a diamond exhibition in the French Riviera resort of Cannes Sunday, investigators said.
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Police seize 31 people over $50 million Brussels diamond heist
Police have detained 31 people over the heist of $50 million in diamonds in February - one of the biggest jewellery robberies in history - after coordinated raids in Belgium, France and Switzerland, Belgian prosecutors said on Wednesday.
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Art Crime Detective Returns Rare Sculpture To France 50 Years After Heist
A Dutch art detective has returned a rare Roman statue that was considered one of France's most important treasures to the museum from which it was stolen nearly 50 years ago.
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Saudi Princess Robbed Of Euro 600,000-Luxury Belongings In Paris Heist
Thieves have taken some 600,000 euros worth of high-end goods from the Paris home of a Saudi princess, a source close to the case said on Friday.
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Up to 26 million Euros Stolen In French Van Heist
An armoured van was held up in Switzerland by masked men whose accomplices had taken the daughter of one of the security guards hostage in neighbouring France, police in the Swiss canton of Vaud said on Friday.
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Cannes 2017: Did You Know That The Biggest Jewel Heist Ever Happened Here?
Cannes 2017: From the dawn of cinema, when the Lumiere brothers shot their first short reels by its glittering shore, the Cote d'Azur has always attracted filmmakers
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How Elite Forces Down Burgers To Foil A McDonald's Heist
When two men decided to rob a McDonald's in eastern France they hadn't expected to come face to face with a table of hungry soldiers from an elite military force.
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Another heist in France, jewellery worth $2.6 million stolen
Four men rammed their car into an upmarket jewellery store in central Paris on Monday, smashing the shop window and making off with a two-million-euro ($2.6-million) booty, a police source said.
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Another jewellery heist on the French Riviera: police
In a week of jewellery heists on the French Riviera, another theft has been reported at the billionaires' resort of the Hotel de Saint Jean Cap Ferrat, east of Nice, police said Saturday.
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$136 million. The big diamond robbery
A lone man wearing gloves, a cap, and a scarf to mask his face sneaked into a diamond show in a luxury Cannes hotel and made off with some $136 million of loot, a French state prosecutor said today - more than twice the initial estimated take from the weekend hold-up.
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$53 million worth of jewels stolen from Cannes hotel
An armed man stole jewels with an estimated value of 40 million euros ($53 million) in a brazen heist in broad daylight at a diamond exhibition in the French Riviera resort of Cannes Sunday, investigators said.
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Police seize 31 people over $50 million Brussels diamond heist
Police have detained 31 people over the heist of $50 million in diamonds in February - one of the biggest jewellery robberies in history - after coordinated raids in Belgium, France and Switzerland, Belgian prosecutors said on Wednesday.
