Sources close to Elie Saab told Sky News Arabia that while a resident of the building was at home, he felt an unusual movement in the international designer’s home, prompting him to contact the police station located in the district.
The French police were surprised, as soon as they arrived on the scene, by a man who was watching the street, waiting for his comrades to come out of Saab’s apartment.
After a quick sweep of the area, French police noticed another person standing at the window of Saab’s house for observation.
And local media in Lebanon quoted sources as saying that when officers arrived on the third floor where Saab’s apartment is, they discovered the main door was locked from the inside, knowing that the designer and his family were not inside the apartment on Thursday.
The sources added: “As the thieves trapped in the apartment were in a state of panic and tried to flee, the security forces broke down the main door of the apartment and entered it.”
Inside the apartment, officers found five people, all over the age of 18, and some of them tried to resist the police before they were all overpowered and arrested.
Police searched every room in the apartment, where they discovered the thieves had opened one of the safes in the bedroom, and the gang was about to smash a jewelry safe attached to the ripe.
French police also seized the cars of three suspects on the street.
The six thieves were arrested at the police station pending hearings before the public prosecutor, before any decision is taken on this case.
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