France jewels thefts : Robbers ram 4x4 into Paris shop
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France jewels thefts : Robbers ram <m> 4x4 </m> into Paris shop
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9 September 2013 Last updated at 14 : 39 GMT
France jewels thefts : Robbers ram <m> 4x4 </m> into Paris shop
French police are investigating a daring jewellery robbery in Paris - the latest in a series of high - profile thefts in France this summer .
In the early hours of Monday , thieves rammed a 4x4 vehicle through the windows of an upmarket jewellery store near the prestigious Place Vendome .
They made off with 2m euros ( £1 . 7m ; $2 . 6m ) in gems and watches .
In July , a masked jewel thief stole £88m worth of precious stones from the Carlton Hotel in Cannes .
After Monday's robbery , the thieves set fire to the 4x4 vehicle in an adjacent side street and made off in a second car .
Many of the most famous names in jewellery have their flagship stores in the Place Vendome , and this is a further embarrassment to the French authorities who have seen a spate of robberies in recent weeks , says the BBC's Christian Fraser in Paris .
Inevitably , the finger will again be pointed at the Pink Panther gang , a loosely aligned network of criminals who are believed to have carried out 300 similar robberies across the world since 1999 , our correspondent says .
The international police agency Interpol has recently begun co - ordinating its efforts to track down the gangs' members , many of them from the former Yugoslavia .
In 2007 , the gang drove two cars through the window of a jewellery store in Dubai , and in less than a minute had escaped with 11m euros of jewellery .