It lasted for two hours then we were able to open up again.” “Only when the police turned up did we find out what had happened. “We heard and saw nothing,” Pierre, a vendor of a shop opposite the bank, told AFP. On Tuesday afternoon, numerous police vans were parked outside the bank including a mobile forensic unit and the area was cordoned off. Paris’ crime squad has launched an investigation. Once they had committed their crime, they left the imprisoned staff who were able to free themselves and alert the police,” said Mr Sid. “They made the most of their time to break open the deposit boxes of several of the bank’s users. The gang calmly searched around 30 deposit boxes for three and a half hours before making their getaway at midday with an unknown quantity of valuables. They proceeded to tie up staff and customers with plastic tape and sprayed them with an unidentified liquid smelling of bleach, according to French reports.Īccording to Eddy Sid of the police union SGP Police FO, the suspects “placed a placard on the front door saying that the bank was shut”. The masked suspects, some reports say at least four, burst into the Milleis bank - formerly Barclays - at around 8.30am local time on the Champs-Elysées roundabout. Armed robbers pulled off a brazen bank robbery off Paris' Champs-Elysées on Tuesday morning, locking staff and customers in for hours while they rifled through dozens of deposit boxes.
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