Photo: AFPAFP · 21 Oct 2016, 09:53Published: 21 Oct 2016 09:53 GMT+02:00Two men made off with half a million euros' worth of luxury watches after threatening staff at the central Paris offices of Swiss watchmaker Girard-Perregaux with tear gas, police said. "Two men pretended to be couriers to get the door opened," a police source said. After threatening staff there with tear gas canisters, they escaped "with about 10 watches with an estimated value of €500,000 ($546,000)", said the source. A spokesman for Girard-Perregaux's parent company Kering confirmed the value of the stolen watches. Story continues below…Security was stepped up in the chic square after a series of violent robberies there in 2014.

Source: The Local October 21, 2016 08:15 UTC