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The victim of a violent robbery in Thornhill says he had $100,000 to $110,000 stolen from him after being boxed in his car.

“This is money, this is my life. I want to keep it,” Mohammad Yaghoubi told CTV News Toronto.

The robbery happened just after 5 p.m. on Oct. 8 in a driveway near a commercial plaza called World Shops, near Yonge Street and Meadowview Avenue.    

Yaghoubi said was driving through the plaza at that time when his grey Genesis was boxed in by a white Lexus SUV and a white Mercedes-Benz. He said he tried to reverse, but his vehicle’s safety features wouldn’t allow it and the vehicles closed him in.

In a video shared by York Regional Police (YRP), three suspects wearing dark-coloured clothing are seen kicking and smashing at the driver-side door of Yaghoubi’s vehicle. Eventually, the door opens and he is pulled out and assaulted repeatedly.

At one point, one …

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