Precious gold samples stolen in raid on French natural history museum | France

The street value of 600,000 €, but invaluable for scientists and researchers, historical gold examples were stolen from the French National Nature History Museum at the end of a series of museums in France.

“This was in a critical context for cultural organizations in France, especially museums, Par said the Paris Museum. “A few public collections have been victims of robbery in recent months.”

In the first hours of Tuesday morning, a apparently well -planned penalty operation targeted the geology of the museum and the mineralogy gallery. The cleaning personnel identified the break later on that day and the museum teams saw that four to six parts were missing.

It is believed that thieves use an angle grinder and Blowtorch to force Paris to enter the Riverside Museum on the edge of Jardin Des Plantes. An unprecedented theft from the high security museum.

A museum spokesman said that thieves received “a few local gold examples of the national collections held by the museum.” The spokesman added: “Although the stolen samples are worth approximately 600,000 € according to the price of raw gold, they still have an unreasonable inheritance value. For a museum, research, inheritance and the public, it captures these unpredictable losses.”

It is a metal alloy containing gold, natural, unrefined forms.

Emmanuel Skoulios, the director of the museum, told BFMTV as follows: uz We are dealing with a highly professional team, he is not perfectly aware of where they should go and professional equipment. Absolutely not to chance to go for these special elements.

The museum’s mineralogy gallery remained closed on Wednesday, while the organized crime unit of Paris’s judicial police launched an investigation. Safety was increased in the museum and controlling the staff collection for other losses.

One of the treasures of the museum is an example of an indigenous gold and quartz that measures 9 cm x 8.5 cm donated by a rich French collector, caused by the Donatia mine in California.

At the beginning of this month, the National Museum of Adrien-Douché in France’s Central Limoges was broken, and thieves received more than 6.5 million € and three objects in France as “national treasures .. They were two 14th and 15th centuries China porcelain plates and the 18th century China porcelain vase.

Mayor of Limoges émile Roger Lombertie told Agency France-Presse the day the robbery was discovered: ız The guilt is increasing, we must always be one step ahead. All the great museums of the world were once stolen.

Last November, four men with axis and baseball sticks exhibited in a wide-day light targeting Pocket Luxury, a popular exhibition with a popular exhibition that includes valuable objects less than 18th century at the Cognacq-Jay Museum in Paris. Some of them borrowed seven valuable tobacco boxes borrowed from the Royal collection of Louvre and the UK.

The next day, the jewel, worth a few million euros, was stolen in an armed robbery at the Hiéron Museum in the Saône-Et-Loire in France at 16:00.

The most famous museum of recent times has occurred in May 2010 at Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris. Vjeran Tomic, nicknamed Spider-Man, valued more than 100m with masterpieces by Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger and Amedeo Modigliani.

The case revealed in the museum that the movement detection alarms were irregular for two months and extraordinary security tours, including the three guards who could not identify Tomic, who was sentenced to eight years in 2017, emerged.

Agent France-Presse contributed to this report.