“French Police Arrest Six People Attempting to Rob Elie Saab’s Paris Apartment”

Sources close to Elie Saab told Sky News Arabia that while a resident of the building was in his house, he felt an unusual movement in the house of the international designer, which prompted him to contact the police station located in the neighborhood.

The French police were surprised, upon their arrival at the site, by a man watching the street, waiting for his comrades to come out of Saab’s apartment.

After a quick sweep of the area, the French police noticed another person standing at the window of Saab’s house for observation.

And local media in Lebanon quoted sources as saying that when the policemen arrived at the third floor in which Saab’s apartment is located, they discovered that the main door was closed from the inside, knowing that the designer and his family were not inside the apartment on Thursday.

The sources added: “While the thieves trapped in the apartment were in a state of panic and trying to flee, the security forces broke the main door of the apartment and entered it.”

Inside the apartment, the policemen found five people, all over the age of 18, and some of them tried to resist the police before all of them were subdued and arrested.

The police searched all the rooms of the apartment, where they discovered that the thieves had opened one of the bedroom safes, and the gang was about to break a jewelry safe fixed to the wall.

The French police also seized three suspects’ cars on the street.

The six thieves were arrested at the police station pending hearings before the Public Prosecutor, before any decision was taken on this file.