Gunmen Steal $5 Million in Euros From Warehouse
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Armed men blasted their way into a Paris euro storage depot before dawn and escaped with millions after a shootout with police, a police spokesman said.
Fifteen men used explosives to blow a large hole in a wall to enter the warehouse near the historic Montmartre district.
They grabbed six bags of cash that police estimated contained one million euros each--about 5 million U.S. dollars. One policeman was wounded in an exchange of gunfire as the robbers made their getaway.
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