They used a marathon to hide the spectacular flight of more than 1.3 million USD in a historic jewelry store in London.

With a meticulous criminal plan, a criminal gang stole this weekend a Traditional Jewelry of Central London and took gems for an estimated sum to more than one million pounds sterling ($ 1.3 million).

The thieves stormed the traditional jeweler sunday George Attenborough and his son, with 176 years in his local Fleet Street, after Open a hole in the wall from the basement of a nearby Paris company.

The flight planning took into account the date: this Sunday took place in the center of the British capital Historic half marathon, a race in which they participated 13,000 people and generated noise and movement in a quiet area on the weekends. Noise in the street would have helped unnoticed the sound of the drill with which they punched the separation wall of the historic store, they reached a staircase in the basement of the store and from there they had access to the main hall of the jewelry store.

"They made two big holes to get in. They stayed all day Sunday and then went to the same place they entered," a police source quoted by the newspaper said. The sun.

The police were alerted at 2 pm Monday morning and are in full investigation of the facts.

The thieves took away rings, bracelets, necklaces and diamond earrings of over a million pounds, according to the first estimates.

The robbery reminded Londoners of the spectacular robbery of the Hatton Garden security deposit during Holy Week 2015, when a group used heavy equipment to break through a wall for four days, access the vault and take jewels by fence. $ 20 million. The authors of the callflight of the century"They were arrested in London and five members of the gang were sentenced to six to seven years in prison.

George Attenborough & Son occupies the ground floor of a five-storey building that describes itself as "one of the last vestiges of Victorian England ".

A small pbadage connects the jewelery store to the Parisian houses, behind the headquarters of the old Bank of England pub, where once were all the national newspapers.

"There is only a small number of attackers capable of animating such a thing, she is very daring but perfectly executed, as in a movie. marathon coverage was a master stroke"said the source consulted by the British newspaper.