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Four men rammed their car into an upmarket jewellery store in central Paris on Monday, smashing the shop window and making off with a two-million-euro (HK$20.43-million) booty, a police source said.
The heist near the upscale Place Vendome 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 two million euros.
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 district of Paris, which is home to numerous jewellery shops.
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 euros 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 per cent of the haul.


France hit by another jewellery heist 

A French police lorry collects a burnt vehicle used to ram-raid a jewelry store in the centre of Paris, on Monday. Photo: AFP

Chopard jewels worth US$1m stolen at Cannes 

A policeman stands guard outside the Novotel Hotel in central Cannes after Chopard jewellery worth more than US1m was stolen at the hotel. Photo: AFP

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Four men rammed their car into an upmarket jewellery store in central Paris on Monday, smashing the shop window and making off with a two-million-euro (HK$20.43-million) booty.
