Two armed men fled with several luxury watches after bursting into a branch of Swiss watchmaker Audemars Piguet in Paris’s chic eighth arrondissement on Saturday, police said, the latest in a string of robberies in the French capital. The pair, who were armed with handguns, made their escape by car. The French capital has seen a number of high-profile jewel robberies in the past few years. In October 2016, US reality TV star Kim Kardashian was tied up and robbed at gunpoint while staying in a luxury residence for Paris Fashion Week. The thieves made off with jewellery worth at least nine million euros ($10.3 million), including a ring worth four million dollars alone.

Source: Punch August 18, 2018 16:07 UTC