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# Drain Robbery

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# Drain Robbery

€18 million worth of stolen jewellery found in a Paris drain three years after audacious heist

Thieves dressed as women held up the famous jewellery store on the Champs Elysee in a robbery that some believed was inspired by an episode of CSI:NY.

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Mar 9th 2011, 9:22 AM

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The 9 at 9 Nine things you need to know by 9am: Members of the 31st Dáil get ready for their first day at school; the $250 million ‘sex slave’ lawsuit against American Apparel founder, and the answer to the question that has confounded science for centuries – does Guinness travel well?

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Mar 9th 2011, 8:07 AM