London | Scotland Yard on Monday launched a call for witnesses to try to find the criminals who seized five weapons from the James Bond saga, stolen six months ago about twenty kilometers north of London.
On the evening of March 23, as the new coronavirus plunged the United Kingdom into containment, the five weapons were stolen from their owner in Enfield. If the thieves were disturbed by the neighbors, they managed to escape before the police arrived.
Their booty: a Beretta “Cheetah” and a “Tomcat”, a Walter PP, a Smith and Weston 44 Magnum and a 22 caliber Lama, appeared in Die another Day , A View to a Kill or Live & Let Die.
One of those deactivated firearms, the yellow-hilted Lama pistol, was found, rusted, in a field near a train station in Essex in April. The others, sometimes unique pieces, cannot be found.
The Magnum is the only one in the world to be fully chromed, the Walter PPK is the last weapon used by Roger Moore in the scene of Dangerously yours where Grace Jones parachutes from the Eiffel Tower.
One of the investigators, Paul Ridley, said in a statement that the stolen weapons “are very recognizable” and “will most certainly” be identified “by the public or whoever is offered them for purchase.”
He underlines the “sentimental value” that these weapons had for their owner, which were to be part of a “national exhibition”.
Police released video surveillance footage on Monday showing a suspicious vehicle just before the theft, a gray Vauxhall and renewed its call for witnesses.
The perpetrators were described as three men with Eastern European accents, dressed in dark, masked faces.