French robbers get away with 70kg of gold after motorway holdup
Lyon — Robbers held up a security van transporting 70kg of gold in a dramatic heist near the French city of Lyon on Monday, police sources said. Four robbers used two cars to block the van on a motorway offramp leading to an industrial estate north of Lyon, the sources said. After grabbing the gold and loading it into their getaway car, they locked the two security guards in the back of their van. Before making off, they set fire to one of their vehicles. The fire gutted the car and spread to nearby vehicles but police arrived on the scene before it engulfed the van, freeing the two guards who escaped unharmed, the investigators said. The robbery took place at an exit from the A6 motorway that connects the city with Paris. Police were hunting the assailants. Motorway hijackings have been on the rise in France in recent years. In March 2015, a group of about 15 robbers held up two vans carrying jewellery worth about €9m at a toll booth on the A6, near the central city of Auxerre. Mor...
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