Paris: what we know about the robbery of a Chanel store on Place Vendôme

The damage is estimated at several million euros and the four suspects are still wanted. An investigation has been opened by the Paris prosecutor’s office. A Chanel store, located near Place Vendôme in Paris, was robbed by four individuals on Thursday afternoon. The damage is estimated at several million euros, BFMTV learned from a source close to the investigation. Four masked and armed individuals Four individuals dressed in black, helmeted, masked and armed arrive at the scene of the robbery, in the heart of the capital at 3:11 p.m. this Thursday afternoon. One of them is carrying a Kalashnikov type assault rifle and the other three are exposed handguns. their vehicle to enter the confines of the Chanel store. Once inside, the four individuals have the jewelry displays opened by one of the two security guards present on site. They then fill their black sports bags with jewelry very quickly and leave immediately. Note that this Chanel store has around fifteen security cameras. Avenue de l’Opéra, towards the Louvre. At 3:19 p.m., the first police officers arrived on site and questioned a first witness. The latter takes photos of the thieves and their vehicles. He claims not to have heard a gunshot. Other people are present at the scene. One of them, a shopkeeper, testified at the microphone of BFM Paris Île-de-France. “We finished our service around 3 p.m. We were smoking a cigarette, the chef left to take his pause. At the corner of the street, he had the impression of seeing a motorcycle accident: a person on the ground on the ground with a motorcyclist on him. I left to film the license plates and there was a biker with a Kalashnikov slung over his shoulder (…) There were people filming opposite with their phones,” he says. A video posted on social networks shows several helmeted individuals dressed in black parked on a motorbike in front of the Chanel boutique. Two other people, also wearing helmets, end up coming out of the shop with loaded bags and fleeing on two wheels. An investigation opened by the Paris prosecutor’s office An investigation into the head of armed robbery has been opened by the prosecutor’s office from Paris. Investigations entrusted to the BRB and the first judicial police district. The suspects are still at large and wanted. Mélanie Vecchio with ML