It only took a few seconds.
And it paid off big.
At least two men on scooters managed to grab more than three million euros worth of jewelry this Monday afternoon by attacking a Brazilian businesswoman who was in a VTC.
The attack took place in the middle of a traffic jam while the vehicle was on an access ramp between the A1 and the ring road.
Apparently no one was hurt.
The thieves are on the run.
The entrepreneur was accompanied by three collaborators
It is 9:30 a.m. when this boss who runs a large luxury cosmetics company lands at Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport.
She is accompanied by three collaborators.
Direction Paris where they will be housed during Fashion Week, the big fashion event that takes place from September 26 to October 4 in the capital.
The four women get into a VTC, a Mercedes Vito utility vehicle.
They need space for their luggage but also handbags worth more than 40,000 euros and above all a Vuitton trunk containing more than three million euros worth of jewellery.
On the A1, no problem.
The attack takes place while the vehicle is stuck on the access ramp to the ring road.
The banditry repression brigade seized
The attackers smash the windows of the vehicle and even force the trunk.
In the space of a few seconds, they manage to take away the handbags and especially the jewelry.
“The amount of the damage is not yet quantified”, indicates the parquet floor of Bobigny.
According to our information, it would in any case be more than three million euros.
Also according to the public prosecutor, the investigation was entrusted to the banditry repression brigade.
It had been six or seven years since this kind of attack targeting wealthy people on the way to the airport had, it seems, happened.
In May 2015, thieves at the door managed to steal more than 5 million euros worth of jewelry from a Taiwanese art collector in the Landy tunnel on the A1.
In November 2016, two Qatari sisters were victims of a similar attack still on this road axis.
The damage was, as always, colossal.