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Motorway thieves steal French jewels

Armed thieves have seized a reported €9m (£6m; $9.5m) worth of jewels from two armoured lorries at a French motorway toll booth.

As many as 15 hooded attackers seized the vehicles at about midnight on Tuesday on the A6 motorway at Avallon, 220km (140 miles) south-east of Paris.

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$100,000 jewellery theft in broad daylight…..Australia

NSW police are appealing for witnesses after a brazen $100,000 jewellery heist in broad daylight at a Sydney shopping centre.

A 55-year-old jewellery wholesaler had parked his car in the level-four Westfield car park in Hurstville about 3.30pm on Tuesday and unloaded a suitcase full of jewellery “for an impromptu meeting with a retailer”, said Detective Inspector Paul Simpkins.

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Man arrested in connection with jewellery store robbery

Police and Edinburgh have arrested and charged a 24-year old man in connection with an armed robbery on a jewellery store in Edinburgh.

The robbery took place at around 9:30am on March 2, when a robber went into Laing The Jewellers on Frederick Street before threatening staff with a gun and making off with between 12 and 15 watches.

The robber is alleged to have then ran into Hannover Street where he hijacked a private hire car, both the driver and his passenger, who remained in the back seat of the vehicle were left ‘shaken’.

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CCTV shows jeweller chases off away axe-wielding robber with a baseball bat

A shopkeeper armed with a baseball bat chased after axe-wielding robbers who snatched up to £50,000 worth of watches and jewellery in a smash-and-grab moped raid.
Mark Guess, 41, bravely fought back when one of the two masked thieves kicked through the glass door of the jewellery store and burst inside.

The store owner chased one of the men with a baseball bat and hit him on the back as he fled….

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Four men arrested for jewellery shop robbery in Galway

Gardaí have arrested four men in connection with the armed robbery of a jewellery shop in Galway.

A “substantial” amount of jewellery, including watches, was recovered as part of the investigation into the raid at Hartmann’s jewellers on William Street.

The incident occurred at about 10.45 am when four masked men entered the shop, one of whom was described as carrying a firearm. ….

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Four men charged over €1m jewellery heist

The four, who are all Lithuanian citizens, appeared before Galway District Court today. All four men were remanded in custody to appear before Harristown District Court on Friday.

The men, Saulius Repecka (36), Irmantas Paulauskas (37), Erikas Matusevicius (35) and Vaidas Pinelis (28) were all charged with one count of robbery….

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Whoops! The moment masked jewellery store robber slips over on shiny floor – after smash and grab raiders burst through window in a MERCEDES

A masked jewellery store raider takes a tumble midway through an audacious gang heist in this incredible footage.
The hapless robber manages to pick himself up and carry on with the raid, in which he and his accomplices made off with hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of Indian gold jewellery stuffed into canvas bags.
In a shocking sequence captured on CCTV a silver Mercedes SLK 230 smashes through the front window of Gems Jewellers in Coventry, West Midlands, to kick off the audacious raid…..

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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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