Masses were used to the Gucci handbag - to crush Shop on Collins Photo. Eddie Jim
It was a case of bags before dawn.
Broken windows in Gucci and Prada in the early hours of Tuesday morning is not what one would expect from the Paris end of Collins Street.
You could get an exclusive scene of the crime hardly. A team of masked robbers armed with hammer and tongs screech their way through two glass facades luxury.
Gucci wallets from their front window stolen on Collins photo. Eddie Jim.
And then, after the glass meets, claim comes through the gap of the tooth their prey: leather handbags worth as much as $ 5,000.
All this has been made in view of a guard who while he was first startled thieves just to its prey back, on the phone to the police.
There is not much known about the attack, with the exception that the offender to make his last journey north exhibition could be seen in a dark sedan on the road.
Illustration: Matt Golding
So where these grants are clamped end, especially many high-end bags have serial numbers, taking into account?
A loss prevention manager at a rival luxury brand believes are destined most likely abroad. China's insatiable thirst for luxury products makes it a prime location at the end of the evil clutches.
more demand fueling that the black market to suppress the highest taxes of corruption and luxury goods online shopping is legitimate.
Security source said that kind of brute-force attacks are rare, but when they do rarely justice high fashion go sacrifice.
The key to stopping the machine in hot high glass thickness, he said. Shatterproof glass support and make you can also stop the attacks.
"Our goal remains one of the highest qualities of glass, which is supposed to have someone to pass the 30 odd tests with a hammer," he said.
Alarms are also important. You can see or send the sound of it cracking, warnings to companies or state police vibrations of the glass.
But it could not be much if the Crims are pretty fast. To capture to escape, they often use stolen vehicles, hiding their identity with gloves and masks. You can steal to order and use an intermediary to sell stolen items.
All this makes it difficult for the police to solve, no matter how visible could be the crime. They do not come much more sensitive than in the elegant shopping street in Melbourne.
Collins Street Campus Vice President Alister Reid, Gray Reid Gallery jewelers, retailers said they better cameras and lighting in the area wanted to protect their businesses.
He said some businesses can start taking after closing, bearing the window if it is the feeling that it is not safe enough at night.
But he did not believe that the attacks earlier this week were an important concern.
"I do not think that opened in Collins Street would prevent, but shows everything can certainly happen here," he said.
Prada and Gucci have decided to remain calm since the attack, might not prefer its luxury brands with this kind of brazen attacks to have.
Although the bandits to get their way, asks Reid if it's worth taking that think about their safety much some of the shops.
"I personally do not think it was worth the risk to flee," he said.
"When a bag of $ 4,000 to sell for $ 1,500 to say, the work is worth your night? I do not know."
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