Bouches-du-Rhône: Couple robbed on Aix-Paris TGV train, over 300,000 euros worth of luxury jewelry stolen

A robbery that could have come straight out of a movie. A French-Canadian couple, passengers on a train heading to Paris from Aix-en-Provence, were robbed on Sunday, according to BFMTV .

Alexandra N. and Aurélien P. were robbed by two individuals for a haul estimated at €350,000, a record sum on an SNCF train. The two thieves managed to escape from Avignon station with, among other things, a Rolex watch, a Cartier bracelet, an emerald necklace, and gold necklaces.

"Something is touching my leg."

The Canadian businesswoman, who was traveling with her partner, had placed a Louis Vuitton bag under her seat. Feeling "something touching my leg," Alexandra N. had not paid attention to this detail shortly after the train departed.

It was only at Avignon station that another train passenger alerted the suspicious behavior of people who had just gotten off the train and had been sitting just behind the French-Canadian couple until then. It was already too late; the loot had vanished.

"No insurance covers us. It's not a snatch theft, we would have had to be assaulted," her partner said before the couple filed a complaint upon arriving at Gare de Lyon in Paris.