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First Luella Bartley now Harry Winston

PARIS: The cheapest piece they stole was a platinum ring worth â¬2,000. The most expensive item: a â¬3.2 million diamond-studded bracelet.

A brazen and meticulously planned robbery of the Harry Winston store in central Paris last weekend netted the unknown thieves about â¬20 million, or $28.4 million, in gems, one of the largest jewelry thefts ever, French investigators said Thursday, following an inventory of the raided safe.

An elite Interior Ministry unit, the Serious Crime Squad, has been put on the case, but so far investigators lack leads to either the robbers or their booty.

According to the police, four or five masked men entered the Harry Winston boutique at 10 a.m. on Saturday - a shop just around the corner from a local police station and mere footsteps from the tourist hordes of Paris's best-known avenue, the Champs-Ãlysées.

One by one, the armed robbers overwhelmed the six employees arriving for work, then calmly asked them to open the safe. They vanished with a bag full of heavy necklaces and gems, including a large diamond worth â¬2 million. None of the employees were hurt.

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Man.. I wish i had stolen those.. Mint..

haha..