{"id":572359,"date":"2025-11-15T16:29:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T16:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/572359\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T16:29:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T16:29:17","slug":"thieves-in-france-steal-jewellery-worth-up-to-e1-million-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/572359\/","title":{"rendered":"Thieves in France steal jewellery worth up to \u20ac1 million: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The burglars reportedly broke into a jewellery boutique in central Roubaix, near Lille, on Wednesday, and briefly took the jeweller and his wife hostage before making off with the valuables.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The jewels were worth &#8220;between \u20ac500,000 and \u20ac1 million, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">They have launched an investigation into kidnapping, organised crime and armed extorsion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a separate incident earlier on Wednesday, several individuals blew up a cash transfer safe belonging to Roubaix&#8217;s main post office and escaped with the bag that was inside it.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It later transpired that the bag contained nothing other than more empty bags. Six people were arrested that evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The heists come after a gang raided the Louvre museum in Paris in broad daylight last month, stealing jewellery worth an estimated \u20ac100 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(With newswires)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The burglars reportedly broke into a jewellery boutique in central Roubaix, near Lille, on Wednesday, and briefly took&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":572360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36,29306],"class_list":{"0":"post-572359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-jewellery"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115554665286182249","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/572360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}