They thought they had recovered the jackpot, they left almost empty-handed. The attack took place this Friday, June 5 in the late morning, in ten minutes, in the parking lot of the Valentine shopping center, in the east of Marseille ((Bouches-du-Rhône), according to the prosecution and the judicial police, confirming initial information from the daily La Provence.
Target of the three men, dressed in black, gloved and hooded, at least one of which was equipped with a Kalashnikov-type weapon: an unmarked armored van came to deliver jewelry to a shopping mall, explained the deputy interregional director of the Marseille judicial police, Philippe Frizon.
They leave 600,000 euros of jewelry in the van
After threatening the two conveyors and spraying the van with flammable product, the three robbers seized several boxes and a bag, before setting fire to the car with which they had arrived and leaving the scene aboard ‘a second vehicle.
Problem for the three men: most of these boxes were empty, and their booty, costume jewelry, much less than that imagined, confirmed to the AFP the deputy public prosecutor of Marseille, Patrice Ollivier-Maurel: “€ 6,000 instead of the € 600,000 of jewelry left in the van”.
“The harm is extremely minimal in the end”, commented the prosecutor of the Republic of Marseille, Dominique Laurens.
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