The scene took place around 5 p.m. on Tuesday July 27. A man robbed the boutique of the jeweler Chaumet, near the Champs-Elysées in Paris, grabbing a loot valued between 2 and 3 million euros, we learned from a source close to the file, confirming
information from Parisian.
The robber, who came on a scooter, burst into the famous jewelry store around 5 p.m. with a handgun and was given jewelry and precious stones, without violence, before setting off again on a scooter, the same source added. .
An open flagrance investigation
“An investigation of flagrance of the robbery with a weapon” was opened and the investigations were entrusted to the Brigade for the repression of banditry (BRB), the Paris prosecutor’s office told AFP.
This boutique is located rue François Ier, near the Champs-Elysées. The Chaumet house is best known around the world for its historic establishment in Place Vendôme, which was robbed in 2009. Precious stones for an amount of 1.9 million euros had been stolen.