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According to a report in The Telegraph, four masked men forced their way into a back entrance of the Apple store in Paris' Opera district, and threatened a security guard. A janitor is said to have been "lightly injured" in the heist.
French police say they were a well-organized crew, making off with boxes of stocked material and loading them into a nearby, parked truck just three hours after the flagship store closed.
"They prepared their coup pretty well," Christophe Crépin, a spokesperson for the French police union Unsa, told The Telegraph. "Since the essential bulk of police forces were mobilized to patrol the Champs-Elysées, the thieves clearly profited from the opportunity to make their move," Crépin said.