Two crooks were caught on CCTV breaking into and looting an electronics store dressed as Father Christmas.
CCTV footage shows them parking outside the store and prising open the security gate using an iron bar.
Dressed in their festive outfits, they smash the glass door and bundle into the store armed with a sack.
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As one crook begins filling the sack, the other starts swiping items from the shelves and taking them outside.
He nearly slips on the shattered glass before the two make a hasty exit moments later with the sack now bulging.
The break-in happened in the centre of Cláudio, southwest of Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
The masked crooks made off with 32 mobile phones, a speaker, and a video game console.
About 20 minutes before the break-in, they had stopped outside the store to do recon.
Local residents called the police after hearing noises coming from the business in the early hours of Sunday (1 Dec).
One witness even saw the duo exiting the store and making their getaway, as reported by Need To Know.
Hapless business owner, Gustavo Oliveira de Souza, told local media it wasn’t the first time he’d suffered losses.
He fell victim to a robbery about three years ago, before he had opened his physical store.
He said: “I had the online shop’s merchandise in my car. I was approached, there were gunshots, and I managed to escape.
“It was a huge trauma. And now, it’s happened again.
“After that incident, I spent three years working to get back on my feet, and now that I’ve finally managed to recover, they’ve taken my stock again.”
The police are investigating the case.
No arrests have been made.
Detectives are trying to identify the getaway car and they are calling on members of the public with any intel to get in touch.
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