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PARIS, Oct 4 (KUNA) -- Armed-hooded robbers raided a luxury jewelry store
in the heart of Paris on Friday and whisked away with a number of high-end
watches worth over USD 2.7 million.
Local media reported that about 15 men, some of them wielding axes and
sledgehammers, burst into the Vacheron Constantin store near the posh Place
Vendome, where several top-end jewelers are located, in the broad daylight.
They smashed the shop windows and left with several watches with hefty
price tags.
Some accomplices outside the showroom, just meters away from France's
justice ministry, used smoke grenades to allow those inside to make a speedy
escape.
France has been hit by a series of high-profile jewelry heists this year.
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