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THE INSIDER Mouloud Djennad (right),
who worked at Harry’s as a security
guard, in a Paris courthouse in 2015.

most spectacular coup yet. Either way, the per-
petrators made one key blunder: They spoke.
Employees testified that the men had Slavic
accents—which, alongside the theatricality of
their getups, again suggested Panther involve-
ment. “Of course there is a hypothesis that it
is the Pink Panthers,” confirmed Isabelle Mon-
tagne, a spokeswoman for the Paris prosecutor’s

“HE ASSURED ME THAT IT WOULD BE AN


EASY HIT, WITHOUT VIOLENCE, THAT


THE JEWELRY WOULD BE REIMBURSED


BY THE INSURANCE COMPANY.”


PHOTOGRAPH BY THOMAS SAMSON/AFP/GETTY IMAGES


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