Posted on 03/30/2022 4:49:55 PM PDT by dynachrome
A 33-year-old French cryptocurrency expert who was shot at point-blank range by a robber trying to steal his $450,000 Richard Mille watch says he believes he was targeted and followed for hours or days before being ambushed outside his Manhattan hotel.
Pierrick Jamaux told DailyMail.com he is shocked by how dangerous the city has become and would never have visited had he known how much it had changed since he lived there 10 years ago.
The entrepreneur, who was visiting from Hong Kong with his Australian model wife, Sarah Watts, 26, was getting out of an Uber at the Fifty Hotel and Suites in Midtown when he was shot five times on March 18.
Speaking from his hospital bed in New York, entrepreneur Jamaux told DailyMail.com: 'Given the fact he was waiting there when we arrived and also the violence of the crime, I believe he followed me.
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They dress very strange in Europe. That would explain it.Those sneakers are a charm.
It reminds of of Clark Griswold when they went to Italy and they came out of the designer store with strange outfits. Well this guy is part of that crowd.
Why would you wear a half a million dollar watch period?
A guy with a $450,000 watch should be able to tell when the watch says it’s nighttime. And nighttime ain’t no time to be in that there neighborhood.
Crypto expert? Not likely. He most likely got in on the top of the pyramid and didn’t actually do anything.
He bought it as an investment…only paid $ 150k…..now worth 450k….sometimes reading the article helps. 😀
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She looks like a concentration camp victim.
I’m pretty sure my $4.50 Casio is as accurate as the 450k version. And it’s pretty safe to say that I won’t be targeted for wearing it.
“... he was shot FIVE times by robber who tried to steal his $450,000 Richard Mille watch after Manhattan hotel ambush...”
Get a Timex dickwad.
bing.com Richard Mille watch
I wouldn’t. Although, I shouldn’t say that - with inflation that’s how much they may cost eventually.
“These are the people who will not survive a break down of the system.”
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Along with those who can’t live (figuratively and literally) without a working phone in their hands.
He took an Uber wearing a 450k watch? He was set up from the moment he entered the hotel.
I still wouldn’t spend ‘only’ $150,000 for a watch.
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