A group of bandits staged a brazen robbery overnight at the Louis Vuitton store in Rome’s central Via Condotti, close to the Spanish Steps.

According to an initial reconstruction of events, a gang of three masked man rammed a car into a shop window at around 1:30 on Monday, breaking through the shutters, and then raided the store.

The loot they bagged has not yet been quantified.

Crime scene investigators are at work at the store.