A man and boy have been arrested in Paris over a 10million euro jewellery haul after one was reportedly found with part of the loot in his underwear.
According to local reports, the two Tunisian individuals were arrested at the Gare de Lyon station on Saturday following a routine police check.
It was here officers discovered items including a necklace estimated at five million euros and earrings worth two million in a sock hidden in the underpants of one of the suspects.
The haul also included a one-million-euro ring and a Rolex watch, Le Parisien reported.
Along with the jewels, an angle grinder – a handheld power tool used for grinding and polishing – was found in the suitcase of the two travellers.
The Paris prosecutor’s office said that it had opened an ‘investigation into theft by an organised gang.’
The investigations have since been handed to the Paris Banditry Repression Brigade (BRB) over suspicions the pair were hiding the proceeds of theft.
A judicial inquiry is set to be opened on September 1.
According to local reports, the two Tunisian individuals were arrested at the Gare de Lyon station on Saturday following a routine police check (file photo)
The haul also included a one-million-euro ring and a Rolex watch, Le Parisien reported. (File photo)
Local media has stated that the pair were known to police prior to the incident (file photo)
Local media has stated that the pair were known to police prior to the incident and were checked by officers as they disembarked a TGV train from the capital of the Gauls at 11am on Saturday.
It comes after a gang of burglars stole £500,000 worth of gold jewellery in a brazen raid of a home while the owners were inside last year.
CCTV footage captured the trio breaking into a property on Bickley Road in Bromley, southeast London, via a bathroom window at around 5.40pm on December 30, 2024.
They remained inside for 45 minutes before fleeing with bags stuffed full of loot.
Video released by the Metropolitan Police shows the men walking across the flat roof of the home, with one of them carrying two large bags before tossing them down to an accomplice on the ground.
Despite the huge value of the theft, the residents were reportedly unaware of the full extent of the burglary until after the gang had left.
And a blinged-up jewellery shop manager who stole £125,000 in diamonds and gold was busted at Heathrow in June – still dripping in stolen gems after a luxury cruise.
Lucy Roberts, 39, was trusted to run a high-end store in Beverley, East Yorkshire – but instead helped herself to gold, diamonds and designer pieces, stashing them under her bed and in cupboards.
She brazenly handed in her notice, jetted off on a plush holiday, and sent smug selfies to ex-colleagues – flaunting the very items she had stolen.
Suspicious staff contacted police with investigations finding that Roberts had made several bogus return transactions and fake stock takes.
A search of her bedroom then uncovered thousands of pounds worth of jewellery hidden under her bed and in cupboards.
When Roberts landed back at Heathrow, police arrested her wearing a haul of stolen jewels – with more in her suitcase.
Bodycam footage caught her hurriedly trying to take the jewellery off as she was being taken into custody.
In interviews, Roberts denied wrongdoing and tried to claim an ex colleague at the store must have planted the rest of jewellery in her suitcase.
Roberts, from Swanland in Yorkshire, appeared at Grimsby Crown Court where she admitted theft by an employee. She was jailed for 28 months.
