ZURICH: Armed men have broken the leader of the "Pink Panther" gang of jewel thieves out of a Swiss prison police said on Friday
Bosnian Poparic Milan escaped the jaji along with another prisoner, after accomplices in two vehicles forced their way through a gate and fired at prison guards.
The "Pink Panther" who target expensive watches, have staged about 340 robberies on luxury stores in Europe. the Middle East, Asia and the United Stated since 1999, marking off with booty worth more than 330 million euros (Bt 14 billion)
Milan 34, had been serving a jail sentence of six years and eight months for robbing a jewellery store in Switzerland's watch-makking capital Neuchatel in 2009
Known for their spectacular heists, the gang drove two cars into a Dubai shopping mall and through the window of jewellery store in 2007, swiping goods worth Bt500 million in a raid lasting less than a minute