Overview
- Paris prosecutors said two suspects were indicted for organized theft and related offenses after an October 2 car‑ramming raid on Chanel’s rue Royale boutique, and both were placed in pretrial detention.
- Investigators identified a Chaville fallback apartment and seized the entire haul of 99 Chanel bags valued at about €575,000 after the suspects switched vehicles during their escape.
- The investigation was assigned to the Brigade de répression du banditisme, with arrests including an interception on a motorway by the Montpellier BRI, and it continues under an investigating judge.
- In a separate case, the Paris criminal court sentenced two men to 12 months in prison for orchestrating failed break‑ins at Jane Birkin’s apartment on consecutive nights in July 2023 shortly after her death was reported.
- One of the convicted men is already serving four years in a case linked to an attempted sequestration of footballer Julian Draxler, and the Birkin inquiry cited city video, phone data, and Snapchat recruitment of a 16‑year‑old.