A few weeks before the release of
Die Can Wait
, the 25th official film in the 007 saga, Scotland Yard on Monday launched a call for witnesses to try to find the criminals who captured five weapons of the James Bond saga, stolen six months ago about twenty kilometers north of London.
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On the evening of March 23, as the new coronavirus plunged the United Kingdom into containment, the five weapons were stolen from their owners in Enfield.
If the thieves were disturbed by the neighbors, they managed to escape before the police arrived.
Their booty: a Beretta "Cheetah" and "Tomcat" a Walter PP, a Smith and Weston .44 Magnum and a Llama .22, appeared in
Die another Day
(
Die Another Day
),
A View to a Kill
(
Kill
) and
Live and Let Die
(
Live and Let Die
).
One of those deactivated firearms, the yellow-hilted Lama pistol, was found, rusted, in a field near a train station in Essex in April.
The others, sometimes unique pieces, cannot be found.
Roger Moore's chrome magnum
The Magnum is the only one in the world to be fully chrome, the Walter PPK is the last weapon used by Roger Moore in the scene of
Dangerously Yours
where Grace Jones is thrown from the Eiffel Tower by parachute.
One of the investigators, Paul Ridley, said in a statement that stolen weapons "
are very recognizable
" and "will
most certainly
" be identified "
by the public or whoever is offered them for purchase
."
He underlines the "
sentimental value
" that these weapons had for their owner, which were to be part of a "
national exhibition
".
Police released CCTV footage on Monday showing a suspicious vehicle just before the theft, a gray Vauxhall and renewed its call for witnesses.
The perpetrators were described as three men with Eastern European accents, dressed in dark, masked faces.
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Le Figaro
presents the very latest trailer for
Dying Can Wait