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Partygoers bound and robbed by armed thieves

Two middle-aged couples were bound and robbed by five armed masked men in a house in Rimbo near Stockholm on Saturday night.

Published: 24 May 2009 10:37 CEST

The robbers broke into the two-story house in the Norrtälje suburb of Rimbo at around 11pm on Saturday evening as the four people, two couples, were having a party on the ground floor.

The four partygoers were threatened, but according to police were not subjected to any violence. Their hands and feet were tied with electric cable and they were locked in a toilet while the thieves ransacked the house.

“This happened around 11pm according to the victims. The thieves were then in the house for some time before they left. The victims eventually managed to wriggle free and call the police,” Susanne Abrahamsson at Norrtälje police told news agency TT.

Police received the call at around 2am.

It was as yet unclear on Sunday morning what the thieves had managed to steal, but a safe was found forced open.

“There is talk about some art, but if it is a question of a large amount or just a few items I do not yet know,” Abrahamsson said.

The robbers were masked and the four people in the house at the time have told police that they could not identify them. Further interviews will be undertaken during Sunday.

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ROBBERY

Axe-wielding robbers steal €400k of jewels from luxury Paris hotel

French police are searching for a team of robbers who stole thousands of euros' worth of jewels and luxury clothing in a nighttime raid at a plush hotel in Paris.

Published: 5 April 2019 09:34 CEST
Axe-wielding robbers steal €400k of jewels from luxury Paris hotel
Thieves targeted the Peninsula Hotel in Paris. Photo: AFP

Two men wearing balaclavas and gloves entered the Peninsula hotel, just a stone's throw from the Arc de Triomphe, shortly after midnight and held employees at gunpoint, police sources said.

One of the attackers then used an axe to break into four display cases, making off with items worth a total of €350,000 to €400,000.

An accomplice then drove them away in a car that was found burning shortly afterwards in the suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine, west of the capital.

No shots were fired and no one was injured in the robbery, the sources said.

France's organised crime brigade has taken over the inquiry.

Luxury Paris hotels have been the target of several robberies in recent years, as have jewellery stores and wealthy tourists visiting the city.

In January 2018, three men were charged over an audacious yet unsuccessful jewellery heist at the Ritz, after they were thwarted by locked doors as they tried to flee.

Last September, three Russian tourists were robbed of thousands of dollars' worth of jewelry and luxury clothing shortly after landing at a Paris airport reserved for private jets.

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