Police find €18m of stolen jewels in French sewer

FRENCH investigators have found jewels valued at €18 million hidden in a Paris rain sewer — part of the spectacular 2008 heist from luxury jeweller Harry Winston’s Paris boutique.

Nineteen rings and three sets of earrings — one pair valued at €14m — were dug up from a drain at a house in the working class Paris suburb of Seine-Saint-Denis, police said.

The jewels were hidden in a plastic container set in a cement mould inside the sewer. The house belonged to one of the nine people charged.