US EditionFrench Police Arrest Six over Armed Robbery at Gold Lab
- This month, six people used explosives to break into Pourquery Laboratories in Lyon, and police recovered loot estimated at �12m.
- Amid arrests tied to the Louvre museum case this month, the incident follows last month's Natural History Museum, Paris theft and the October 19 museum heist seizing $102 million in jewellery.
- Video footage shows two men exiting a white van, one carrying a ladder used to scale the company's fence, while an accomplice loaded two black briefcases and a witness reported a huge explosion and robbers with Kalashnikovs.
- Shortly after the raid, police detained the suspects in Venissieux and arrested a woman accomplice, seizing assault rifles, handguns and explosives; Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said `Six people who used explosives in an attack on a precious metals company in Lyon were caught red-handed`.
- Five employees were slightly injured in the blast and three were taken to hospital for checks, officials said, while twenty-eight staff were present during the daytime heist.
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French police have arrested six people who robbed a gold processing laboratory in Lyon, the latest high-profile armed robbery in France to take place in broad daylight.
Armed Robbers Break Into Gold Lab In Lyon In Another French Daytime Heist
Six people armed with military-grade weapons used explosives to break into a gold refining laboratory in Lyon on Thursday, slightly injuring five employees in France's latest high-profile daytime heist.
French Authorities Crack Down on Lyon Armed Heists
Six people armed with military-grade weapons used explosives to break into a gold refining laboratory in Lyon on Thursday, October 30th. The audacious raid on Laboratoires Pourquery slightly injured five employees, three of whom were taken to hospital for checks. Police quickly apprehended the suspected perpetrators in the neighbouring town of Venissieux. Among those arrested was a female accomplice. Assault rifles, handguns, and explosives wer…
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