This is the end of a nightmare for 18 employees Qwartz mall, located in Villeneuve-la Garenne. On Monday morning they were evacuated by elite police Raid.
At midday, the officers of this unit and other police of Brigade research and intervention in the Paris judicial police were always on hand to try to locate the robbers who raided Monday morning in this shopping center.
Braqueurs fleeing
In fact, three criminals “were filmed entering the mall without out in accordance with the CCTV cameras’ .
However, the robbers are no longer in the Qwartz shopping center in the city in northern suburbs of Paris, said a police source told AFP at midday . “Excavations in the mall are over, the three seem to have fled, the search continues off center” confirmed a source close to the investigation. It is unknown at this time if the robbers took away booty with them.
The police device developed around the mall has been lifted, was a journalist from AFP.
An employee of the suspects?
“It seems that among the three suspects, an employee was recognized” , said a source close to the investigation.
Around 7 pm, an employee of Primark clothing store “sent a text message to her boyfriend for him say they were taken hostage by two armed men “, said another police source. “Frightened, 18 employees have entrenched themselves in a shopping center canteen was near” , the source said.
Around 10 h 30, the elite Raid police conducted their evacuation. “There are no injuries to deplore but one of 18 people felt unwell” , said a police source.
These people left peacefully, was a journalist from AFP. Several ambulances were positioned not far away.
Two men “hooded”
“I saw two robbers , dressed in black, the two hooded. They were quiet, no hurry “, told Jahin Bruno, 20, arrived shortly after 6 pm to supply ATMs offices of the store.
“The biggest was about 1.80m, armed with a gun, I think a shotgun. The other was smaller “, reported the young man. “I was at the door of the stock of the store, I saw them pass me in the store. They were ten paces. They headed towards the offices “.
” This is a robbery, must come down “
“I have heard many times:” This is a robbery, must come down “” , he explained. “I turned around, I took the elevator” . The witness said he did not see any of the entrenched employees.
“Of course they were looking for money, this is a store that works very good “, he assured.
Quarter curly
The circulation was cut in the neighborhood around the mall and the gates of shops were dropped. “The whole mall was evacuated to 7 h 45″ , said an employee of the store Carrefour shopping center, which has seen “some police cars” when he arrived at work “around 6 am-6: 30 pm» .
Very many onlookers flocked late morning, kept away by police. Placards specified that the shopping center would reopen its doors “in the afternoon” .
“We can confirm that an incident occurred in our shop Qwartz mall north of Paris” , said a spokesman of the Irish company.
“We will do our best to support our employees and their families” , he added. “We hope that this incident will end quickly and smoothly” .
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