Night watchman found dead in Paris hotel after robbery bid – Times of India
PARIS: The body of a night watchman was found bound and battered in a Paris hotel after an attempt to steal a safe filled with cash, a police source said Saturday.Officers were called at around 11:30 pm (2130 GMT) on Friday to a street in the city's 11th district, where the police source said a safe was found abandoned.Inside a nearby hotel, they found the body of the night watchman "lying on his bed, tied up and with multiple bruises," the source added.A witness reported seeing four men wearing balaclavas trying to load the safe into a van at around 9:30 pm, before giving up and fleeing in the vehicle.The safe "contained the hotel's whole month of revenue," the police source said.The watchman had reported being assaulted around 10 days before by several people "claiming to be delivery ...