An armed with Kalashnikovs band has captured the motorcade of a Saudi Arabian prince in Paris. The gangsters captured 250,000 Euro cash – and sensitive documents.

Heavily armed gangsters ambushed the convoy of a Saudi Arabian prince in Paris. The band took the prince from a quarter million euros. For stolen goods also included according to the police documents from the Paris Embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia . Whether they contained secret information was initially unclear.

The criminals were obviously well informed about the ride with about ten cars. On Sunday evening, a convoy of unidentified princes had left the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in the direction of the Paris Le Bourget Airport. This is primarily used by business and government aircraft.

But on the way there, the group seized on one of the vehicles from the column. According to information from the radio station France Info, it was the perpetrators were eight men, who were armed with assault rifles among other type Kalashnikov. The three passengers were released unharmed little later. The vehicle put the perpetrators after their escape in a Paris suburb on fire.

The heavily armed criminals attacked apparently targeted the car with the money and the documents and used it as a getaway vehicle. “They were informed,” a police spokesman said the news channel BFMTV.

What documents arrived in the attack on the Paris Porte de la Chapelle in the hands of criminals, was initially unclear. Also on the question of why such a large amount of cash was transported, there was no answer.

In the attack, no one was hurt. The member of the royal family should have been sitting in one of the rear cars. The Saudi Arabian embassy initially wanted to give an opinion.

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