Four masked men armed with Kalashnikovs murdered a jeweller in an upmarket store in Cannes, leading to fears that the notrious international jewel thieves the 'Pink Panther gang' has struck again.
A police spokesman said the robbers “made everybody lie down and started breaking display cabinets using baseball bats”, the Telegraph reports.
"The manager of the shop was shot dead with a single bullet to the head. The robbers got away with jewellery and cash."
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The pink panther gang are eastern european elite international jewel thieves who are suspected of robbing £100m worth from shops.
During a suspected pink panther raid in April a gang brandishing Kalashnikovs and stun grenades robbed £90,000 from a French casino.