The scene was muscular and the jeweler was vigilant!
This Wednesday, a suspected thief, aged 58, is in custody at the 8th district police station.
He will have to answer for attempted theft by ruse with violence.
The facts took place on Tuesday, at 12:25 pm, in a jewelry and fine jewelry store, located in the “beautiful neighborhoods”, rue Pierre Charron, between avenue Georges V and the Champs-Élysées.
A fake diamond in my pocket
The almost sixty-year-old landed “like a flower”, pretending to be a client, and with a hidden diamond in his pocket.
His "mission" was to manage to be presented with jewelry and in the end to discreetly exchange his fake diamond for a real one… Foreseeing and playing the credibility card, the thief had even equipped his stone with a serial number. and a label.
The pseudo-client then asked the saleswoman for a diamond mounted on a ring for which he had previously scouted.
Quickly and (not enough) discreetly, he tried to exchange it on the display.
Except that the saleswoman has uncovered her sleight of hand.
She started screaming in the shop and managed to retrieve the two rings.
The thief did not want to surrender and tried to tear him away.
The guards then appeared.
The saleswoman very shocked
When the police officers of the BAC (anti-crime brigade) of the 8th district police station, called urgently, disembarked rue Pierre Charon, they found the thief in the back room, in good company, between the two guards, pinned to the ground .
The man was handcuffed and searched.
He did not carry weapons but was in possession of a Georgian passport.
He was brought back to the police station and taken into custody.
The investigation was entrusted to the 8th century police station.
The head of the jewelry store was to file a complaint on Wednesday.
The saleswoman, very shocked, was not injured.
Many thefts of jewelry by trickery of the same style - a great classic - have taken place in the past with more success.
In 2018, a gang tried to discreetly replace jewelry worth a million euros with nails!
The men had been arrested but the booty never found!
In August 2019, a fake princess of the Emirates had succeeded in replacing jewelry at a Parisian jeweler with cubic bouillons!
