Diamond ring worth 250,000 euros stolen in Paris
Three men posing as customers at a Paris store have stolen a diamond ring worth 250,000 euros (£217,000; $353,200), French police sources say.
While looking at rings at the Tiffany & Co counter of the Printemps department store, the men reportedly asked for a certificate of authenticity.
When the salesperson went off to make a photocopy, the men slipped away and escaped unchallenged by store guards.
Store managers were not immediately commenting on the theft for the media.
The stolen item was described by a police official as a three-carat diamond set in a platinum ring.
According to city newspaper Le Parisien, the salesperson only went to make a photocopy after one of the men produced a passport.
A source close to the investigation into the theft, which took place late on Tuesday morning, told the paper that surveillance video was being examined for clues.
"It was a particularly daring theft," the source added.