There were between 1000 and 2000 of us waiting in line in front of the Orange store on the Champs-à‰lysées…

I arrived at 4:30pm, well ahead of the announced opening time, 6:30pm… Already a good hundred people before me, but not as bad as I feared…

Good news turned out to be that the store actually opened at 6pm, but there were so few salesmen that the stream of wannabe iPhone-owners coming in barely made us advance a whooping 10 meters in an hour…

Video : Some crazy timer-operator playing with our nerves as the deadline got closer than we expected….

Apparently, by the time I got out (at 9pm), about 30 people had got robbed of their precious iPhone shopping bag in the street, a few dozen meters away from the store… Thank god, mine went back home safely !