The
French police must be rather worried now with the robbery occurred last
Saturday, in broad daylight, in the Famous jewellery store Chopard, in
the Square Vendeme, Paris. They are not the only ones. Also those who
earn their living writing film scripts. A robbery with this sort of
characteristics would not even fill the kind of the shortest of short
films.
A middle aged man of about 40, very elegantly dressed, entered the establishment, a brief nod to everyone, took out a gun wit a silencer from his well-tailored jacket pocket, and asked to be given all the jewellery exhibited in the show-windows and counters. The employees obeyed. The gentleman took the lot (several dozen pieces of jewellery and luxurious watches, valued at some 6 and a half million Euro) or just over 8 million US$. Chucked everything into an ordinary bag, thanked the staff politely, and left through the front door walking normally without hurrying ... all in less than 2 minutes. There were no haste, no threats, no screaming or shouting, nor gunshots, nor furtive connection with alarms, at most, with the only detail that the gentleman wore a hat, the kind that everybody but everybody wore in the 30's - 40's. (Was that called a trilby hat?) But that would have exhausted the plot and the description of the man in the first 3 minutes. Then what? The man was elegant? Or that he put all that on as camouflage or disguise (very discreetly). Needs a lot of talent basing on so little to write a script. Except in the hands of a few of those scriptwriters that take on made-to-order commission, able to 'curling the curls' as the Spanish would say, to describe 'making a mountain out of a molehill' as the English would say, adding a whole lot of unnecessary and purposely misleading details. This gentleman robber must have taken note of the other jewellery store robbery in December last year, in the Harry Winston, another prestigious store also in Paris. That time 4 armed robbers, 3 of them disguised as women (with blond wigs, sunglasses, scarves), each carrying a gun and the 4th a hand grenade. They took away about 85 million Euro's worth of diamonds amongst other jewellery. That band has a name, the Pink Panthers. When one of them was caught last May, things were not so sure any more whether the culprits were the Pink Panthers. There was material there for a film. But this other, there's not enough even to fill a newspaper column. Perhaps it's better to keep quiet about it, in case appear shortly imitators of the gentleman robber with the trilby hat. |
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