{"id":11656,"date":"2026-05-05T10:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/11656\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T10:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T10:00:09","slug":"hunt-for-masked-scooter-robber-after-11-rolex-watches-stolen-in-paris-heist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/11656\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunt for masked scooter robber after 11 Rolex watches stolen in Paris heist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Luxury watches<\/a> have been stolen in the heart of the French capital by masked scooter robbers who targeted a boutique store near the Elysee presidential palace<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The thieves threatened the shop owners at gun point and wore high-quality masks that a shop employee said resembled real human faces. The robbers were reported to have used the pretext of wanting to sell a Rolex watch<\/a> before forcing the seller to stuff 11 watches in their bag. The watches were worth 150,000 Euros ($175,000).<\/p>\n

“Suddenly they pulled out a gun and told my father, “Put everything in the bag.” They fired a shot, just to show my father it was a real gun,” Gary Azoulay, manager of the Our Watches shop told French television after Monday’s robbery.<\/p>\n

Mr Azoulay said he had gone out to run an errand and his father was alone in the shop when the incident happened in a timespan of “maximum two minutes”. It took place in the eighth arrondissement, rue de Miromesnil.<\/p>\n

“The Elysee Palace is there, and yet they still came to rob it knowing that the police were at the end of the street,” Mr Azoulay said.<\/p>\n

A police source told daily Le Parisien that one of the two robbers was arrested in the northern suburb of Paris of Asnieres-sur-Seine, after a traffic accident between the scooter he was riding and a truck. A cartridge was recovered but the other suspect remains on the run.<\/p>\n

The Paris prosecutor’s office has launched an investigation and said in a statement to the media that the robber had entered the shop pretending to be a client before displaying a weapon and shooting into the wall. The employee was also violently pulled into the entrance area of the shop before the robber fled with an accomplice waiting on a scooter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luxury watches have been stolen in the heart of the French capital by masked scooter robbers who targeted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[30,589,588,590],"class_list":{"0":"post-11656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-paris","8":"tag-paris","9":"tag-standard","10":"tag-story","11":"tag-uk-bureau"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}