World | Paris $25M in Gems Found in Paris Sewer Loot from Harry Winston heist recovered By Rob Quinn Posted Mar 9, 2011 4:25 AM CST Copied Armed robbers, some of them in drag, made off with almost the entire contents of the boutique in the 2008 heist. (AP Photo/Francois Mori) Stolen gems worth $25 million have been found stashed in a rain sewer in a Paris suburb. Police say the gems—taken in a spectacular $100 million heist in 2008—were hidden in a plastic container embedded in cement, the BBC reports. The home above the sewer belongs to one of nine people jailed for the armed raid on luxury jeweler Harry Winston's Paris boutique, AP reports. (Click to read about another heist-gone-wrong.) Read These Next One mystery is solved around chilling Holocaust photo. Researchers have an idea of what brought down this civilization. The shark killed his girlfriend. He nearly died fighting it. The Atlantic has a lengthy profile of RFK Jr. Report an error