Paris : Armed robbers on Thursday raided a jewellery store near the posh Place Vendome in Paris, making off with luxury watches worth 800,000 euros ($1 million), a source close to the investigation said.
Brandishing hand guns, they threatened the employees of the outlet in the heart of the French capital, the source said.
France has witnessed a series of robberies of luxury jewellery stores recently, including a brazen attack by axe- and sledgehammer-wielding men at a Vacheron Constantin store near Place Vendome. They stole watches worth hundreds of thousands of euros.
Other heists have taken place in the fashionable Riviera playground of Cannes.
In a spectacular robbery, jewel thieves made off with baubles worth $1.4 million due to be loaned to movie stars at the Cannes film festival in May.
The spurt in crime spawned an unprecedented phenomenon: massive support on social networking site Facebook for an elderly jeweller who shot dead a teenage robber in September.
Brandishing hand guns, they threatened the employees of the outlet in the heart of the French capital, the source said.
France has witnessed a series of robberies of luxury jewellery stores recently, including a brazen attack by axe- and sledgehammer-wielding men at a Vacheron Constantin store near Place Vendome. They stole watches worth hundreds of thousands of euros.
In a spectacular robbery, jewel thieves made off with baubles worth $1.4 million due to be loaned to movie stars at the Cannes film festival in May.
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