https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from France in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed The driver of an armoured cash delivery van disappeared outside Paris early on Monday along with an estimated one million euros, police sources told AFP. https://www.thelocal.fr/20190211/cash-delivery-van-driver-disappears-in-france-with-1-million Mon, 11 Feb 2019 15:40:33 +0100 cash-delivery-van-driver-disappears-in-france-with-1-million Members of a pickpocket gang who ran a human trafficking network that sent undocumented minors to pick pockets at tourist sites in Paris and other French cities have been charged in France. https://www.thelocal.fr/20180511/paris-pickpocket-gang-charged-over-3million-worth-of-thefts Fri, 11 May 2018 10:54:46 +0200 paris-pickpocket-gang-charged-over-3million-worth-of-thefts Two diamond dealers from India were attacked with tear gas and robbed at a Paris Metro station, with the thieves making off with a briefcase full of the precious jewels worth around €300,000. https://www.thelocal.fr/20180302/thieves-make-off-with-300000-of-diamonds-in-paris-metro-jewel-heist Fri, 02 Mar 2018 11:05:59 +0100 thieves-make-off-with-300000-of-diamonds-in-paris-metro-jewel-heist Three men were charged and detained Saturday over an audacious jewellery heist at the Ritz hotel in Paris this week, while two other suspects were still on the loose, a judicial source said. https://www.thelocal.fr/20180113/three-charged-with-paris-ritz-jewellery-heist-judicial-source Sat, 13 Jan 2018 18:19:11 +0100 three-charged-with-paris-ritz-jewellery-heist-judicial-source French police have recovered some of the jewels worth over €4 million looted from the Ritz hotel in central Paris, a police source told AFP on Thursday as officers hunt for two thieves who remain on the run. https://www.thelocal.fr/20180111/paris-ritz-raid-french-police-recover-jewels-stolen-in-heist Thu, 11 Jan 2018 13:16:10 +0100 paris-ritz-raid-french-police-recover-jewels-stolen-in-heist Two suspects have been charged in an investigation into the theft within yards of the presidential palace in Paris of a bronze sculpture by Colombian artist Fernando Botero, a judicial source said on Saturday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20171125/two-suspects-charged-over-france-theft-of-botero-statue Sat, 25 Nov 2017 14:58:50 +0100 two-suspects-charged-over-france-theft-of-botero-statue Two thieves were convicted and jailed this week after they used a fairly cunning modus operandi to steal from passengers bound for Paris Beauvais airport. https://www.thelocal.fr/20171017/thief-hides-in-suitcase-on-paris-airport-bus Tue, 17 Oct 2017 11:26:53 +0200 thief-hides-in-suitcase-on-paris-airport-bus Thieves pretending to be Paris city workers have in the past few days stripped the French capital's walls of pixellated works from French urban artist Invader, the city said on Friday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20170805/thieves-strip-space-invader-mosaics-from-paris-walls Sat, 05 Aug 2017 10:52:05 +0200 thieves-strip-space-invader-mosaics-from-paris-walls French police have charged a 23-year-old man in southern France for allegedly stealing army rocket launchers and a stock of armour-piercing shells off a freight train, a source close to the case said Saturday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20170702/man-held-for-theft-of-rocket-launchers-from-french-train Sun, 02 Jul 2017 12:32:22 +0200 man-held-for-theft-of-rocket-launchers-from-french-train A 19th century crown, encrusted with almost 1,800 gem stones, has been stolen from a museum of religious art in central France, the museum authorities have said. https://www.thelocal.fr/20170515/jewelled-crown-stolen-from-museum-in-lyon Mon, 15 May 2017 15:10:40 +0200 jewelled-crown-stolen-from-museum-in-lyon Thieves snatched €200,000 ($215,000) in jewels from an art fair in Paris at the weekend, police said on Monday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20170403/thieves-use-common-paris-street-scam-to-steal-200-in-jewels Mon, 03 Apr 2017 18:48:00 +0200 thieves-use-common-paris-street-scam-to-steal-200-in-jewels A Qatari tourist was mugged of her €50,000 watch near the Champs Elysées on Thursday night. https://www.thelocal.fr/20161014/paris-thieves-pinch-qatari-tourists-50k-watch Fri, 14 Oct 2016 14:59:44 +0200 paris-thieves-pinch-qatari-tourists-50k-watch Police have dismantled a gang of four who had made an estimated €100,000 out of stealing high-end prams around Paris. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160930/paris-police-bust-high-rolling-gang-of-pram-thieves Fri, 30 Sep 2016 11:57:30 +0200 paris-police-bust-high-rolling-gang-of-pram-thieves A 'revolutionary' aged in his 80's, who believed church property should be taken away, has been arrested for stealing thousands of items from churches. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160308/french-revolutionary-pilfered-3000-objects-from-churches Tue, 08 Mar 2016 08:25:14 +0100 french-revolutionary-pilfered-3000-objects-from-churches Brazen thieves duped an elderly Paris couple into letting them into their apartment, where they then made an easy heist. https://www.thelocal.fr/20160219/fake-police-steal-200000-of-jewellery-from-paris-retirees Fri, 19 Feb 2016 11:54:41 +0100 fake-police-steal-200000-of-jewellery-from-paris-retirees Thieves stole all the boots of Sporting Braga players from their changing room as they prepared for their Europa League match at Olympique Marseille, police said. https://www.thelocal.fr/20151106/french-thieves-steal-portuguese-temas-boots Fri, 06 Nov 2015 12:30:38 +0100 french-thieves-steal-portuguese-temas-boots A painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat, one of the world's most coveted contemporary artists, has been stolen from an apartment in Paris, police said on Saturday. https://www.thelocal.fr/20151017/basquiat-painting-stolen-from-paris-home Sat, 17 Oct 2015 18:21:09 +0200 basquiat-painting-stolen-from-paris-home An art dealer was charged in France on Monday with handling stolen goods in a case relating to the theft of Picasso artworks. Russian billionaire owner of Monaco football club Dmitri Rybolovlev bought two of the works for €27 million. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150915/france-charges-art-deal-with-pinching-picassos Tue, 15 Sep 2015 11:00:33 +0200 france-charges-art-deal-with-pinching-picassos A woman who worked on a supermarket checkout in eastern France has been caught after "forgetting" to scan items for her less well-off customers, with police swooping in when she sold a computer for just €10. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150521/frances-robin-hood-cashier-caught-red-handed Thu, 21 May 2015 11:11:26 +0200 frances-robin-hood-cashier-caught-red-handed A French postman, with a "compulsive hoarding disorder", was handed a prison sentence this week for stealing some 13,000 letters over a ten-year period. La Poste has promised to return all the correspondence that police found in his attic. https://www.thelocal.fr/20150305/french-postman-steals-13000 Thu, 05 Mar 2015 10:56:00 +0100 french-postman-steals-13000