French police have arrested a suspected member of the infamous Pink Panther gang of international jewel thieves.
The 47-year-old, born in Montenegro but with French and Macedonian citizenships, was detained at his home in the southern Montpellier region on Monday, a police source said.
The suspect, who had been on the run since escaping from a Swiss prison in May, tried and failed to escape through a window at the time of his arrest, the source said.
A former member of the French Foreign Legion, the suspect is wanted in several countries, including under two international arrest warrants issued by Switzerland, where he had been in prison for armed robbery.
He and four other prisoners escaped from the Bois-Mermet prison, near Lausanne, on May 14, using weapons and tools passed to them from accomplices on the outside - two have since been recaptured, the other two are still free.
Milan Poparic was one of those who escaped from the Swiss jail The gang emerged from the war in the former Yugoslavia to become the most successful jewel thieves in the world.
According to Interpol, they have, since 1999, snatched jewels with a value in excess of €330m (£281.5m) in heists that are often executed with breathtaking speed and precision.
Among the latest robberies carried out were two in the South of France.
A lone gunman walked into the world-famous Carlton Hotel in Cannes and stole diamonds worth nearly £90m from an exhibition.
In another raid in the same town, two gunmen held up a luxury shop and left with goods valued at up to £1.3m.
The gang gained their nickname with a raid on a London branch of Graff Diamonds in 2003, in which two of them posed as wealthy would-be customers, persuading staff to open doors for them before helping themselves to diamonds worth millions.
Although one of the robbers was overpowered at the scene and another later arrested, only a fraction of the diamonds were recovered, one of them hidden in a pot of face cream.
That was reminiscent of a scene from the 1975 film The Return of the Pink Panther and resulted in a nickname that the gang members themselves adopted, wearing pink shirts for a subsequent raid in Zurich.
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