Ram - raiders hit Paris jewellery store for €2m
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Ram - raiders hit Paris jewellery store for <m> €2m </m>
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Ram - raiders hit Paris jewellery store for <m> €2m </m>
Published : 09 Sep 2013 11 : 25 GMT+02 : 00
Updated : 09 Sep 2013 11 : 25 GMT+02 : 00
Ram - raiders ploughed their vehicle into an upmarket jewellery boutique near Place Vendôme in central Paris on Monday in a dramatic dawn robbery , making off with €2 million worth of loot .
Four men rammed their car into an upmarket jewellery store in central Paris on Monday , smashing the shop window and making off with a €2 million ( $2 . 6 - million ) booty , a police source said .
The heist near the upscale Place Vendôme is the latest to hit France after a spate of high - profile robberies in the southern resort of Cannes .
The police source , who wished to remain anonymous , said the men drove a large four - by - four car into the store in the early hours of the morning and grabbed jewellery and luxury watches worth an estimated €2 million .
They then set fire to the vehicle and escaped in another car .
Forensic policemen are currently going through the site of the robbery at the Casty store on Rue de Castiglione in the central first arrondissement of Paris , which is home to numerous jewellery shops .
Paris also witnessed another dramatic robbery on Sunday night when thieves armed with Kalashnikovs stormed a subsidiary of the France's rail operator SNCF in the capital's 15th arrondissement .
According to reports , the robbers escaped with around €60 , 000 from the company which is in charge of managing restaurant cars on the TGV trains .
At the end of July , an armed man carried out a brazen robbery in broad daylight at a diamond exhibition at the Carlton hotel in Cannes , making off with jewellery worth €103 million in one of the world's biggest ever heists .
Paris has also been the scene of high - profile robberies .
In December 2008 , three men emptied almost all of the stock of gems from the Harry Winston jewellery store .
In 2009 , police said they had recovered 80 percent of the haul .