Just like in the movies

Last Thursday four robbers stole 80 million euros from Paris diamond store in 13 minutes. That sounds like the script of a new Hollywood production, maybe starred by George Clooney or Matt Damon. However, it was no fiction. That happened this week in one of the world's most famous diamond store located in Paris.
Robbers entered the store, three of them wearing disguises. Staff thought that they were three women and one man, but the three women were actually men in drag. Despite the fact that all of them were holding guns, no shots were fired, only some staff were hit over the head. The thieves corraled people in the store and demanded all the all the store's merchandise.
According to police, the gang knew the names of some of the staff and the location of hidden jewels. That is the reason why the investigators consider that they had inside knowledge or had done intensive surveillance.
About the actual location of the haul, experts think that it can already be on the way to Eastern Europe, where it would be sold on the black market.
The stolen store is Harry Winston's on Avenue Montaigne in Paris and this is the biggest robbery in French history and the second biggest jewellery theft in Europe.

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Vocabulary learnt:

heist

a crime in which valuable items are taken illegally and often violently from a place or person

snatch

to take hold of something suddenly and roughly

haul

a usually large amount of something that has been stolen or is illegal

wig

a covering of artificial hair worn on the head to hide a lack of hair or to cover your own hair

reportedly

according to reports or other information, supposedly