Le préjudice est estimé à environ 600 000 euros selon une source proche de l’enquête jointe par France Télévisions.
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The damage is estimated at around 600,000 euros according to a source close to the investigation contacted by France Télévisions.
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No payment. Sans inscription. A burglary took place at the Museum of Natural History in Paris on the night of Monday, September 15th to Tuesday, September 16th, as confirmed by the Paris prosecutor’s office. An investigation into organized theft has been opened and entrusted to the Brigade de Répression du Banditisme (BRB).
According to initial reports from the prosecutor’s office, a cleaning employee discovered on Tuesday morning that gold nuggets had disappeared from the mineralogy gallery of the Museum of Natural History in the 5th arrondissement of Paris. A close source to the investigation informed franceinfo that a five-kilogram nugget and three nuggets weighing a total of one kilogram were stolen, amounting to six kilograms of gold nuggets in total.
Another source close to the investigation, contacted by France Télévisions on Tuesday evening, estimated the damage to be around 600,000 euros. The museum confirmed this estimate on Tuesday evening to franceinfo, while explaining that the heritage value of the stolen objects is priceless. The perpetrators of the theft used a blowtorch to burn and break the reinforced glass, while a fire exit door was sawed. The tools used for this intrusion were found on-site in the morning.
«The National Museum of Natural History, a museum of France, laments this invaluable loss for research, heritage, and its dissemination to the public,» the museum responded in a statement sent to franceinfo on Tuesday evening. «For security and investigative reasons, the Gallery of Geology and Mineralogy remains closed to the public until further notice and is subject to enhanced surveillance measures.»
In July, the museum was targeted by a cyber-attack. Several online tools dedicated to research activities, expertise, libraries, or collection consultation were unavailable for several weeks.
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