One afternoon last week, a retired businessman and his wife left their pleasant villa outside Paris to drive two of their sons back to boarding school in the family Buick. One of their two nieces, left behind, looked up from the dinner she was preparing and screamed. Two-men, heads shrouded in black hoods, had entered the house.
Swiftly and efficiently the men herded the women upstairs at pistol point, tied them with curtain cords, locked them in a bathroom, and—undetected by a private secretary asleep upstairs—systematically ransacked the house. Soon afterwards they walked away with a wad of bank notes...
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