As police officers were
busy keeping an eye on areas popular with New Year revelers, four armed
and masked robbers forced their way into an Apple store in central Paris
and made off with as much as $1.3 million worth of iPhones, iPads and
other devices.
The robbers forced their
way through a service entrance into the store, which had closed for the
day, using violence to intimidate store employees, said Agnes
Thibault-Lecuivre, a spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutors office.
"They knew exactly what
they were taking," he said, noting that the robbery focused on the
merchandise in the storeroom and left the devices on display inside the
store untouched.
They loaded the stolen
goods, estimated to have a retail value of around one million euros
($1.3 million), into a Mercedes van parked nearby and sped off, he said.
Thibault-Lecuivre
declined to confirm the value of the robbers' haul, saying that Apple
managers were still working out how much had been taken.
Housed in an elegant
Haussmann-style building in a popular shopping district, the store Apple
Store at Opera is one of two in central Paris. The other is in an
underground mall connected to the Louvre.
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