Aggressors take €9m of gems in French motorway heist

WNO-CRIME-Police in France are chasing a gathering of "fight solidified" equipped criminals who assaulted two protected vans conveying gems at a motorway toll in the dead of night and snatched a pull worth €9m (£6.3m).

Gendarmes and different powers are brushing the Burgundy district south-east of Paris for the group, after the most recent in a string of enormous gem heists in France lately.

A police source, who wished to stay mysterious, said there were around 15 burglars, all "intensely outfitted and fight solidified".

Nobody was harmed in the assault on the A6 roadway joining Paris and Lyon. The drivers of the two vans were constrained out of the vehicles by the assailants, who snatched the gems , as per sources near to the examination.

"They are likely men who stem from composed wrongdoing and who are decently educated. There were no shots shot and everything happened at lightning speed," a police source said.

The substantial vans, which were transporting gems for an arranged deal in the eastern city of Besancon, were discovered copied and deserted not a long way from the toll station. One of them was totally tore separated. The gems stay missing.

The authority talked on state of secrecy in light of the fact that he was not approved to be openly named.

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Assaults on exceptional vehicles conveying gems or money regularly oblige supplies, for example, explosives or strike rifles, keeping in mind they happened frequently toward the start of the 2000s in France, they have dwindled lately.

The last major such heist was in 2009 when reinforced van driver Toni Musulin got away with his vehicle after two of his associates ventured away, snatching in any event €11.5m in real money gathered from a Bank of France building.

Musulin turned into an overnight web sensation during a period when the super-rich were detested amid the monetary emergency.

Examiners soon discovered bundles of trade totalling €9.11m in for money a lockup carport in the south-eastern city of Lyon close where the surrendered van was found, and after almost 10 days on the run Musulin provided for himself in.

Whatever is left of the money was never found.

Regarding the matter of gems, the nation's most tremendous heist was a twofold theft at a Harry Winston shop in an upmarket piece of Paris in 2007 and 2008.

In the first robbery in October 2007, four covered shooters wearing decorators' overalls victimized the store.

The hoodlums had spent the night in the adornments shop with the assistance of a security watch at the store, who let them in the past nighttime.

The criminals snatched 120 watches and 360 bits of gems worth more than €32m.

At that point a little more than after a year, in December 2008, four men - including three wearing ladies' garments and wigs - entered the same store, again with the assistance of the gatekeeper.

In under 20 minutes, they took 104 watches and 297 bits of adornments worth €71m and fled in an auto.

A month ago eight men were sentenced to up to 15 years in prison for their part in the the double.

SOURCE:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/11/attackers-steal-9m-jewels-french-motorway-heist

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