The repression brigade of banditry is responsible for the investigation. The amount of the loot had not been communicated in the middle of the afternoon.
Le Monde with AFP
Four helmets helmeted and hooded, at least one of which was wearing an assault rifle spun, Thursday, May 5, a luxury shop Chanel of watchmaking and jewelry, rue de la Paix, near the Place Vendôme, in full “Parisian gold triangle”. They fled with a scooter and a motorcycle, without making any injuries.
The banditry repression brigade (BRB), seized of the investigation, went there, announced in a tweet The Paris police prefecture . The robbery was filmed by a surfer, who posted his video on social networks.
Racking under AK47 at Chanel…. I would never have thought that of my life 😮 https://t.co/bnjghu0ott
We can clearly see four people dressed in black, helmeted and hooded. Three leave the shop, while the fourth, on its motorcycle, wears an assault rifle in shoulder strap. Two leave on a scooter, the other two on the motorcycle. The two devices are black.
amount of loot not communicated
Shortly after the facts, the rue de la Paix was completed by a security cordon and police numbers were distributed in front of the shop, whose metal curtain was dropped.
Anastasia Martino, 26, a saleswoman in a costume store located opposite the Chanel store, tells the France-Presse agency that it was about “2:30 p.m.” when the robbery took place. “I was smoking a cigarette before my lunch when I saw a single man with a Kalashnikov on a motorcycle.” “Two minutes later, three other men came out with big black bags. They also had any Automatic weapons and went up on two motorcycles and left very quickly, “she added.
For Cyril Ngo, 31, supervisor in the same store as the young woman, it was “no pros, because it lasted ten minutes”. “There are even people who went through the watchman without realizing that he was armed,” he continued. “A client warned us. We immediately called the police, who did not believe us. We had to recall, he said, so that they take us seriously and intervene.”
The amount of the loot was not communicated in the middle of the afternoon.