A major robbery occurred on October 19 at the Louvre Museum in France, in which eight rare treasures were stolen. The security of the museum was questioned. However, security loopholes in French museums are a chronic problem. Last month, a similar case occurred at the Natural History Museum in Paris, where thieves broke into the museum and Stolen about 6 kilograms of natural gold nuggets of great historical and scientific valueThe Paris Prosecutor’s Office issued an announcement on the 21st. A Chinese woman was arrested.The case has been prosecuted and other persons are still being pursued.
Paris National Museum of Natural History was founded in 1635. It is a French national museum and one of the most important and oldest natural history museums in the world.It is directly managed by the French government and is affiliated with the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research and the Ministry of the Environment, with the same status as the top national cultural institutions such as the Louvre.
About a month before the Louvre Museum was stolen, that is, in the early morning of September 16, thieves used an angle grinder to cut open two doors of the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, used a blowtorch to destroy the display case of the mineralogy exhibition hall, and stole about 6 kilograms of natural gold nuggets. The total value is approximately 1.5 million euros。
The thieves sneaked in at around 1 a.m. and left until 4 a.m.. They acted professionally and quickly. The museum keeper didn't know that the museum was stolen until the cleaners found debris on the scene.
Gold is not just precious metals. It also has important historical and scientific value, including specimens from the California Gold Rush period, a gold nugget donated by Bolivia to the French Academy of Sciences in the 18th century, a Ural gold nugget donated to the museum by Tsar Nicholas I of Russia in 1833, and a gold nugget found in Australia in 1990 weighing more than 5 kilograms.
On October 21st, the Paris prosecutor's office issued an announcement confirming that a 24-year-old Chinese woman had been detained and formally charged. The woman was arrested on September 30 at Barcelona Airport in Spain when she tried to carry about 969 grams of melted gold fragments out of the country.On October 13, Spain handed her over to France, and on the same day she was officially charged with organized theft, gang crime, etc. If the crime was found, she could face up to 15 years in prison.
The prosecutor speculated, The Chinese woman is likely to be a key coordinator of the criminal network or the head of dismantling, and may be involved in preliminary reconnaissance and be responsible for the cross-border transportation of some of the gold after melting to Asian markets.The actual executors may be local French or Eastern European criminal gangs, but the details of other suspects have not yet been announced.
Announced by Janet Evening.
Source: Xinmin Evening News Author: Shen Jialing, Chen Li, Integration