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Austrian police arrest four ‘Pink Panther’ jewel thieves

Austrian police said they had arrested two Israelis, as well as a Serbian and a Belgian suspected of belonging to the notorious international “Pink Panther” group of jewel thieves.

The four men, aged between 35 and 40, were arrested last Thursday in a Vienna hotel and jewellery and watches worth about US$565,000 (RM2 million), police said.

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Moment Mercedes smashes through the window of jewellery store before armed masked raiders shatter display cabinets then flee in Audi

A band of masked raiders burst into a jewellery store behind a Mercedes in this shocking footage. The silver SLK 230 smashes through the front window of Gems Jewellers in Coventry, West Midlands, to kick off the audacious heist. Three robbers clad all in black then rush in behind the car, which was stolen and using false plates, while a fourth wielding a hatchet jumps out of the passenger seat of the apparently left hand drive car as its driver reverses it back out again.

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Four charged with €1m Hartmann’s jewellery heist

Four Lithuanian nationals who are charged with the robbery of almost €1.1 million worth of jewellery from a Galway City jewellery shop on Wednesday have been remanded in custody to appear before Harristown District Court tomorrow (Friday).

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Staff threatened at gunpoint in Halifax jewellery store raid

Police are appealing for witnesses after staff at Lister Horsfall Jewellers, Halifax, were threatened at gunpoint before gunmen made off with a quantity of watches.
The raid, which police have described as “extremely frightening”, happened shortly before 5pm on Thursday, February 5, and involved three men who entered the store armed with a gun, crowbar and a hammer…..

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Pictured: The moment sledgehammer gang smash their way into jewellery store with battering ram before disappearing in BMW

Shocking CCTV images capture the moment a masked gang smashed their way into a jewellery store before making off with thousands of pounds worth of goods. Raiders carried out the robbery on Naz Jewellers in Rochdale, Greater Manchester in broad daylight last Thursday lunchtime. Images from the store’s CCTV cameras show four men running towards the shop before one of them uses a battering ram to get through two doors.

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Ramraiders who struck at Foleshill shop made off with stash of gold jewellery

Ramraiders stole a large quantity of Asian gold after smashing their way into a Coventry jewellery store. A silver Mercedes mounted the pavement and drove through the front window of Gems Jewellers in Station Street East, Foleshill. The incident happened in the busy shopping street, which is just off the main Foleshill Road, at 5.30pm on Thursday.

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Heroic security guard fights off gang of EIGHT baseball bat-wielding thugs who leave with nothing

A heroic security guard fought off EIGHT baseball-bad weilding thugs who hoped to rob a jewllers. But the moped gang had to leave empty handed after the guard, known only as ‘Johnny’, battled them away from the William & Son store in Mayfair.

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Armed robbery at Doncaster town centre jewellers

A jewellers in Doncaster town centre has been targeted by robbers who are believed to have threatened staff with weapons.

The incident took place at around 11:25am at HL Browns jewellery store in St Sepulchre Gate on January 28, following reports that three masked men had entered the premises.

It is alleged that the men threatened staff with weapons including a hammer and an axe, before fleeing with a quantity of watches…..

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Audacious jewel heist linked to thefts abroad

The audacious theft of a HK$36 million diamond necklace from a high-end Tsim Sha Shui shopping centre last week is just one of a series of similar crimes carried out across the region in which children serve as shoplifters, it has emerged.
Near-identical heists have taken place in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and Macau in recent months and, according to a security expert, all were attributable to a mainland Chinese gang that pulled off a string of heists across Europe in the last few years…..

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CCTV images capture raid on jewellers by armed gang

CCTV images have caught the moment a gang of armed raiders smashed their way into a Rochdale jewellery store and stole several items.

The robbery took place at Naz Jewellers on Milkstone Road in Rochdale at around 12:30pm on Thursday January 22.

According to Greater Manchester Police, the gang pulled up outside the shop in a silver BMW X5. They then smashed their way into the store and threatened staff, before taking several items…..

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