article_snippet: Yesterday's raid bore all the hallmarks of having been carried out by the Pink Panthers, a gang responsible for audacious heists across Europe and beyond over the past two decades.
article_snippet: the Pink Panthers are said to speak several languages and travel on genuine passports issued to other people, but with the photos changed.
article_snippet: In 2008 a court in Chambery, south-eastern France, found three Serb members of the Pink Panthers guilty of carrying out robberies in Biarritz, Cannes, Courchevel and Saint-Tropez.
article_snippet: Police helicopters and other units were scrambled to hunt three Serb members of the Pink Panthers but by dawn there was no sign.
article_snippet: The methods used in the robbery immediately led to speculation that the Pink Panthers – a notorious gang of criminals from Eastern Europe – had struck again.
article_snippet: three Serb members of the Pink Panthers earned three Serb members of the Pink Panthers name in 1993 after stealing a £500,000 diamond from a jewellers in Mayfair, London, and hiding a £500,000 diamond from a jewellers in Mayfair, London in a jar of face cream –
article_snippet: a tactic copied from the 1963 film The Pink Panther, starring Peter Sellers as the bungling Inspector Clouseau.
article_snippet: the 1963 film The Pink Panther
article_snippet: ’s title refers to the name of the missing diamond, although a cartoon pink panther appears in the opening and closing credits.