This is a double turning extremely bold therefore almost a year apart, including eight men accused will appear before the Paris Assize until February 27.
Double turning that begins in the morning of October 6, 2007. That morning, around 10 am, four criminals disguised as painters but armed and hooded, shine a, one after the other as they arrive, employees of the Harry Winston jewelry, Avenue Montaigne in Paris (8th). Jeweler Harry Winston is among the most prestigious in the world, present in all the major capitals and attended by all the world’s wealthiest, industrial, crowned or from the “showbiz”. Suffice to say, a place or sleeps a considerable fortune.
That day, the robbers team had introduced the previous day by a service door of the establishment, with the complicity of a security guard. They had spent the night there. After threatening, beaten and tied up the employees and forced the director to disable alarms and open chests, they seized 120 watches and 360 pieces of jewelry, a booty estimated to over 32 million. The turning lasted less than 30 minutes.
Just over a year after that first “nice shot”, December 4, 2008, four men, three of which are disguised as women, clothes and wigs, enter in the shop, this time by the main entrance, with the complicity of the same security guard who had not been suspected the first time.
This time in less than 20 minutes, the team s ‘seized 104 watches and 297 pieces of jewelry, for an estimated total of 71 million euros. All without a shot or moment of panic. Just after the robbers have gathered all the people, employees and customers, who were inside the three floors of jewelry, one of the criminals he starts to impress, a thunderous “ Nobody move or I smoke everyone “
Given the enormity of the total flight (for the two breaks are double turning one of the most important jewelry flights ever committed in the world) the insurer, Lloyd’s, offers 700,000 euros reward to help find jewelry
This is from a managed information the gendarmes of the Central Office of fight against itinerant delinquency (OCLDI) that police have recovered the trail of the robbers with tapping and shadowing, and the dealers. Some stones sometimes resized, were sold at 25% of their value in Israel or in the market of the Antwerp diamond with fake certificates.
But after five years of investigation by the Brigade Prevention of Banditry, 493 rooms are found.
Among the accused prosecuted for theft by an organized group, complicity or concealment, figure an old acquaintance of the police, Douadi Yahiaoui, called “blanket”, 50, who already served 23 years in prison for theft and drug trafficking. Considered the brains of two breaks, it minimizes his role, presenting a simple common intermediary. It is however in its flag that the police got hold of most of the recovered booty, including 19 three rings and earrings estimated at € 17 million in a cement hides hidden in a sewer recovery rainwater.
Another key character in the file, Djennad Mouloud, 39, security guard at Harry Winston since June 2007, which recognized his involvement in the robberies, for which he provided Daoudi Yahiaoui information on the jewelry. Six other men, relatives or family Yahiaoui, are co-defendants.
The trial runs until February 27th.
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