Fifteen Hermes and YSL handbags worth HK$1.44 million stolen from shop in Hong Kong’s busy financial district
Police searching for three suspects after store display window was found smashed
Fifteen designer handbags – 14 Hermes and one YSL – worth a total of about HK$1.44 million (US$184,000) were stolen from a shop in Hong Kong’s busy financial district on Monday morning after its display window was smashed, according to a police source.
The store in the Man Yee Building shopping centre in Central was fenced off as investigators gathered evidence at the scene.
“The display window was broken, and the shop had been ransacked. A one-metre sledgehammer was found inside the store,” a police spokeswoman said.
“Three masked men used a hammer to break the display window of the store at about 6.30am before entering,” the source said, adding that the raid took less than a minute. Two of the burglars were also wearing hats.
Another police source said the three perpetrators arrived in a white seven-seater driven by a fourth man. The masked trio jumped out and ran into the shopping centre after the car pulled over on Pottinger Street near the junction with Queen’s Road Central.
“We believe they had scouted the area before the raid,” he said, noting that the culprits had moved very quickly.
