Paris robbery: Smartly dressed gang stage €10m jewellery raid

Two men successful suits and a pistillate successful a formal person robbed a prestige jeweller's successful the fashionable bosom of Paris making disconnected with goods worthy millions of euros, reports say.

The trio, carrying a handgun equipped with a silencer, targeted the Piaget store astatine lunchtime successful the chic Rue de la Paix, a stone's propulsion from the Opera successful the city's 2nd district.

Staff were forced to the ground, a constabulary root told Le Parisien website.

The robbers past fled connected foot.

Prosecutors judge luxury jewels worthy €10m-€15m (£8.5m-£13m) were taken arsenic the trio plundered the store displays. No-one was reported hurt.

France's peculiar BRB constabulary portion targeting equipped robbery and burglaries has taken implicit the inquiry, 1 of respective high-profile investigations into organised gangs and hostage-taking successful Paris.

Only 3 months ago, different smart-fronted jewellery store was targeted 100m (330ft) down the street. The Bulgari store connected Place Vendôme was attacked connected a Saturday afternoon, again successful wide daylight, by 3 equipped robbers who sped distant connected 2 motorbikes.

Both Rue de la Paix and Place Vendôme are renowned for their luxury jewellers' shops. But dissimilar the Bulgari raid, the pack that robbed the Piaget store were smartly dressed.

French reports talk of 2 men successful grey suits and a pistillate wearing a greenish formal and achromatic trousers.

Sandrine Marcot of France's jewellery and watches national told French TV the fig of raids was worrying: "Even though it's existent the level has dramatically fallen implicit the years, since the extremity of Covid successful the past mates of years, the fig of robberies and burglaries has been growing."

Less than 2 weeks ago, Italy and Paris St-Germain goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma and his spouse were tied up successful their Paris level arsenic their attackers made disconnected with jewellery, watches and different luxury goods.