Affected by the epidemic in the first half of this year, Hong Kong's retail industry suffered a very serious trauma. In the first quarter of 2020, the retail sales in Hong Kong decreased by 36.9% compared with previous years, which was the biggest single-quarter decline in history. In Hong Kong, the local retail industry has begun to seek various ways of transformation. For example, when there are few people coming and going in the business districts such as Causeway Bay and Mong Kok, some shopkeepers can't bear the pressure, so they put up signs at the door of the store and asked to close down. Or banners with goods at half price. Well-known brands such as Chow Tai Fook also announced the temporary closure of some branches, shortening business hours or giving employees unpaid leave. Just when the retail industry in Hong Kong was facing a depression, a piece of news was suddenly sent to a hot search, and there was another jewelry robbery in Hong Kong. According to Hong Kong news media, at about 9: 38 am on August 25th, Hong Kong police suddenly received a phone call from the public. The public said that in front of No.43 Hefeng Street, two robbers suddenly broke into the jewelry store with beef knives and hammers. The robbers have been smashing the jewelry counter with beef knives and hammers. After robbing about/kloc-0.00 million yuan of jewelry, he rushed to a private car outside the door to escape. After receiving the alarm from the public, the police immediately rushed to the scene to investigate. When we came to investigate, there was a hammer left in the jewelry store for robbers. The police were checking the surveillance videos of various places on the roadside to try their best to catch the robbers, and the case was handed over to the District Crime Squad of Tai Po Scenic Area for follow-up.

According to the surveillance video collected by the public security organs, at the time of the incident, two robbers parked outside the jewelry store in a private car driven by their colleagues. One of them was holding a hammer, the other was holding a big knife and a nylon bag, and went to the jewelry store with his accomplices to start robbery. When the police pulled up the surrounding surveillance video, it was said that there were still many people in the store choosing jewelry when the robbers robbed, but they found someone robbing the store and ran away immediately. According to news reports, the whole incident only lasted more than a minute. Two robbers smashed the jewelry counter with weapons, snatched more than four plates of jewelry, and then immediately ran to their accomplices' private cars to escape.

What is even more shocking is that a police car passed the jewelry store one minute before the robbery, which shows that the two robbers probably came here early. Observe the track of the police car. I stepped on it a little earlier and went to rob the jewelry store without fear.

Before this case, there were many jewelry store robberies. Therefore, I also hope that the Hong Kong police can conduct more inspections to ensure the safety of life and property of Hong Kong people.