Armed robbers stole millions of pounds-worth of jewellery during a brazen heist astatine the world-famous Harry Winston store successful Paris today.
The pack struck conscionable earlier midday connected Saturday successful wide daylight, causing panic astir the Avenue Montaigne, conscionable disconnected the Champs-Élysées.
'Up to 4 men arrived connected motorbikes,' said an investigating source. 'Two cars past appeared to signifier a collision outside, presumably arsenic a diversion.
'It was past that the men who arrived connected motorbikes rushed into the store, and began breaking reinforced solid displays.
The satellite celebrated Harry Winston store successful Paris was struck by a pack of equipped robbers today
'All were wearing clang helmets to fell their identities. One changeable was fired successful the aerial to scare onlookers, but cipher was wounded.
'The pack got distant with jewellery believed to beryllium worthy millions, and everything is being done to find them.'
They abandoned the cars, and near connected astatine slightest 2 ample motorbikes, said the source.
Paris prosecutors confirmed they had opened a transgression enquiry into the crime, which took spot successful wide daylight and connected the busiest buying time of the week.
In 2015, 8 men were imprisoned implicit a treble heist connected the aforesaid store that netted jewellery including luxury watches worthy immoderate £65million.
Sentences ranged from 9 months to the 15-years fixed to the alleged mastermind, who had pretended to beryllium a builder during the archetypal heist successful October 2007.
A twelvemonth later, 4 robbers again entered Harry Winston, with 3 of them this clip wearing women's covering and wigs.
In March 2011, constabulary recovered immoderate £15million worthy of jewellery from the 2008 heist stuffed down a drain successful St-Denis, to the northbound of Paris.
Despite this, the Harry Winston store successful Paris remains a magnet for the superrich astir the world, from movie stars to Royalty.
It archetypal became a household sanction aft Marilyn Monroe sung astir it successful 1953, successful the opus 'Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend', during the film, 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'.
Showing disconnected a database of apical jewellers, Monroe sang: 'Talk to me, Harry Winston, archer maine each astir it!'
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