PARIS: French police have recovered some of the jewels worth over 4.0 million euros looted from the Ritz hotel in central Paris, a police source told Agence France-Presse on Thursday as officers hunt for two thieves who remain on the run.

A gang of five used axes to smash the display windows of jewelry shops on the ground floor of the hotel in Place Vendome on Wednesday evening at around 6:30 pm (1730 GMT).

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