The target of a blatant theft in broad daylight outside a restaurant in Beverly Hills that yielded a $ 500,000 watch – and left an innocent bystander shot – the terrifying ambush told the Post on Friday.
Jewelry dealer Shay Belhassen said he was sitting with a customer at the famous celebrity spot Il Pastaio on Thursday afternoon when three armed robbers came after him and acted to steal his $ 500,000 Richard Mille watch.
“One of them was choking me in the back with a gun to his head, while the other was grabbing my arm and the third was pulling the watch out of my hand,” Belhassen told the Post in a telephone interview – referring to his Flyback chronograph. rose gold RM 11-03, a favorite of celebrities like Kanye West and Kevin Hart and tennis star Rafael Nadal.
“I took a chance and grabbed the gun and threw them on the floor. They were trying to pull the trigger, ”said Belhassen.
Four shots were fired during the fight, the jewelry store said, and one of the bullets hit a woman who was sitting in the restaurant with her boyfriend.
“I believe that one of the [the robbers] was shot while they were fighting with me on the ground, ”he said. “Eyewitnesses said he ran around holding his belly. I know that while we were fighting on the ground, some bullets were fired. I believe that one of them hit him. “
He added that he was happy to escape the theft alive.
“They were coming to shoot. They did not come to play. There was no fear in his eyes, ”he said.