Three robbers targeted Piaget's Rue de la Paix flagship, stealing an estimated 10 million euros to 15 million euros worth of goods.
The case has been referred to the brigade de répression du banditisme, a special police unit charged with investigating armed robberies, serious burglaries and scams, stolen cars and art thefts, by the Parquet de Paris.
The investigation on this heist, qualified as a theft committed as part of an organized gang with detainment of persons, is ongoing.This is the second armed robbery this year in the tony Place Vendôme area, home to jewelers and watchmakers, after Bulgari’s Parisian flagship was targeted in April. At the time a security guard had been injured, with robbers making off with stolen goods estimated at several million euros.
In 2022, Chanel’s temporary watches and jewelry store on Rue de la Paix was targeted by four robbers armed with assault rifles. Bulgari’s store had previously been robbed in September 2021, when armed robbers made off with loot later valued at 10 million euros. Four were arrested and jailed in conjunction with this heist.
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