Seven youths have been charged with armed theft for his or her alleged roles within the brazen daylight attack on the French movie crew of “Lupin,” a Netflix collection a couple of burglar. Final month, a gang of about 20 hooded thieves threw fireworks on the crew and made off with about $330,000 price of apparatus.
Three of the accused robbers, who’re between 13 and 21 years previous, are being held in custody whereas 4 are underneath judicial supervision. Police are nonetheless looking extra of the assailants, and have recovered a number of the stolen tools, Agence France-Presse reported Saturday.
The crew, together with the collection’ star, Omar Sy, had been filming within the Pablo Picasso district of the Parisian suburb of Nanterre on a late February afternoon when they were attacked.
No person within the forged or crew – together with Sy – was injured.
The present tells the story {of professional} thief Assane Diop, who’s performed by Sy. The collection was impressed by the fictional French grasp of disguise Arsène Lupin.
Lupin isn’t the one high-profile Netflix manufacturing to be focused by thieves this 12 months.
The day earlier than the Paris heist, robbers in South Yorkshire within the UK stole more than 200 antique props from the set of “The Crown” TV collection
The 2 robberies are usually not believed to be related.
