Paris (AFP)
A woman pretending to be a princess in the United Arab Emirates is suspected of stealing 1.6 million euros of jewelry from a Parisian jeweler after replacing them with "bouillon cubes", have we learned Friday from sources close to the file.
This woman who had visited Wednesday at 9:00 pm in a luxury jewelry store on rue Saint-Honore, in the 1st arrondissement, had several coins placed in a box and assured that she would pay by transfer the next day, according to the channel LCI which has revealed the information.
Worried not to receive the promised transfer, the jeweler has reopened the case and realized the ploy: the fake princess had managed to discreetly replace jewelry by what she first took for " chocolates, "according to sources close.
Eventually, the investigators discovered that it was "bouillon cubes", said one of these sources.
The damage is estimated at more than 1.6 million euros.
An investigation for "theft by trick" was opened by the brigade of repression of the banditry (BRB) of the Paris judicial police which was seized of the investigation.
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