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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
“H E ASSURED ME THAT IT WOULD BE AN
EASY HIT, WITHOUT VIOLENCE, THAT
THE JEWELRY WOULD BE REIMBURSED
BY THE INSURANCE COMPANY.”
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