Paris: Burqa-wearing robbers hold up bank

Paris: Burqa-wearing robbers hold up bank


TWO burqa-wearing bank robbers have held up a post office near Paris, using a handgun concealed beneath an Islamic-style full veil, court officials said.


Staff let the pair through the security double doors of the banking branch of the postal office overnight, believing them to be veil-wearing Muslim women, before they flipped back their head coverings and pulled out a gun, officials said.


They made off with €4500 ($A7112) seized from the staff and customers of the branch in Athis Mons, just south of Paris, according to the online edition of Le Parisien newspaper.


Police have opened an investigation.


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Source: news.com.au (English)

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