Gold worth $ 700,000 stolen from Paris

The thieves have entered the Natural History Museum of Paris, making gold samples with a value of $ 700,000 in the last one of a worrying series of robberies of cultural institutions, according to the museum.

Famous for its skeletons of dinosaurs and stuffed animals, the National Museum of Natural History in the elegant 5th district of the French capital also houses a gallery of geology and mineralogy.

On Tuesday morning a robbery was detected, with the intruders, according to the reports, using an angular grinder and an torch to force the complex on the side of the river that is popular between Parisians and tourists.

“Theft refers to several native gold specimens of the national collections that make the museum,” said the Museum Press Office to the News on Tuesday night.

“While stolen samples are valued at around 600,000 euros depending on the price of raw gold, however they have an immeasurable patrimonial value,” he added.

Native gold is a metal alloy that contains gold and silver in its natural and unrefined form.

An unidentified police source told the Parisien newspaper that the alarm and surveillance systems of the museum had been disabled by a cyber attack in July, with the apparently aware thieves of vulnerability.

“This incident arrives at a critical moment for cultural institutions and museums in particular. Several public collections have been attacked by theft in recent months,” added the museum.

He did not explain the other robberies, but the National Museum Adrien Duboucheuche in Limoges in the center of France is known to suffer a Back at the beginning of this month.

The thieves stole two dishes and a vase in Chinese porcelain classified as national treasures, with the losses estimated at 6.5 million euros. The museum has about 18,000 works, including the largest publicly limogen porcelain collection in the world, according to its website.

Last November, four men with axes and baseball broke the showcases in broad daylight at the Cognacq-Jay Museum in Paris, dating several works of the 18th century. That robbery resulted in an insurance payment of more than $ 4 million to Royal Collection Trust, BBC News reported.

The next day, the jewels valued at several million euros were stolen during an armed robbery in a museum in Saone-Et-Loire in the center of France.

In May 2024, Armed thieves reached a jewelry In one of the most elegant streets in Paris, and the media reports said that the goal was the exclusive Boutique of Harry Winston, self -dominated “Jeweler to the Stars.”

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