The target of a brazen robbery in broad daylight outside a Beverly Hills restaurant that got a $ 500,000 watch (and left an innocent shot on the part of the viewer) told the terrifying ambush to The Post Friday.
Jewelry dealer Shay Belhassen said he was sitting with a customer at the famous Il Pastaio site on Thursday afternoon when three armed thieves came out from behind him and made their move to slip their $ 500,000 Richard Mille watch.
“One of them was drowning me in the back with a gun to the head, while the other was holding my arm and the third was throwing the watch at my hand,” Belhassen told The Post in a telephone interview. , in reference to his RM 11-03 Gold Rose Chronograph Flyback, one of the favorites of celebrities like Kanye West and Kevin Hart and tennis ace Rafael Nadal.
“I took a risk and grabbed the gun and threw them to the ground. They were trying to pull the trigger, ”Belhassen said.
Four shots rang out during the fight, the jewelry dealer said, and one of the slugs hit a woman in the leg who was sitting in the restaurant with her boyfriend.
“I think one [the robbers] they shot me while they were fighting with me on the ground, “he said.” Eyewitnesses said he was running while I had a stomach. I know that while we were fighting on the ground, they shot a couple of bullets. I think one of them hit him. ”.
He added that he was happy to escape the robbery with his life.
“It simply came to our notice then. They did not come to play. They had no fear in their eyes, ”he said.