Paris police took into custody at least two alleged armed robbers who tried to make away with a reported $11.6 million in jewelry from a Bulgari store in the French capital, according to law enforcement officials on Tuesday.

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       Three sharply dressed robbers, who were allegedly carrying firearms, entered the Bulgari boutique in the Place Vend？me in the late morning on Tuesday. They reportedly seized the jewelry before fleeing in a gray BMW. Four other accomplices left on scooters, Reuters reported.

       Police officers chasing the robbers fired at the vehicle, causing them to flee on foot before being caught. Two people were arrested, the Paris Police Prefecture said. (Citing an unidentified police official, Reuters said that three people had been detained.) One person was shot in the leg before being arrested, the Associated Press reported. Prosecutors are investigating the heist, and a search for the accomplices is underway.

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       It is not immediately clear how much jewelry the remaining robbers got away with, though some of those detained had ditched portions of their hauls before getting arrested, according to Reuters.

       A Bulgari spokesman said that there were no injuries sustained as a result of the robbery. “Bulgari will now leave the police and justice department to carry out their investigations,” he said.

       Tuesday’s incident comes after several jewelry stores in Paris were recently robbed. On July 27, a man stole jewelry worth up to $3.5 million from a Chaumet boutique; suspects were arrested the next day, and police said at the time that most of the stolen goods had been recovered.

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       Three days later, two men armed with an electric shotgun and tear gas seized around $470,000 in goods from a Dinh Van store.

       The Place Vend？me, one of Paris’s most luxurious districts, has been a particular favorite of robbers. In 2018, five men hooded in ski masks and armed with axes stole millions of dollars’ worth of jewelry from a shop at the Ritz hotel.

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