AVALLON (Web Desk) – A group of more than a dozen “battle-hardened” armed thieves attacked two heavily guarded vans carrying jewels at a French motorway toll in the dead of night, making off with a haul worth some 9 million euros ($12.54 million), police said on Wednesday, reported The Age.
Security forces were working to find those behind the heist, which took place around midnight on a motorway in the Yonne district some 200 kilometers southeast of Paris, searching within a large perimeter around the area and under the watch of air support.
A police source, who wished to remain anonymous according to the report, said there were around 15 robbers, all “heavily armed and battle-hardened.”
