From the National Natural Science Museum in Paris, unknown perpetrators stole six kilograms of rare gold nuggets on Tuesday night. The thieves apparently knew about the vulnerability of the object, as the alarms and monitoring systems have been dysfunctional after a cyber attack since July.
Unknown perpetrators broke into the National Natural Science Museum in Paris on Tuesday night and stole six kilograms of gold nuggets worth 600,000 euros. AFP reported on Wednesday, TASR writes.
Nuggets have an incalculable value as part of the cultural heritage
The burglary was revealed on Tuesday morning a cleaning house, noticing that there are no exhibits in the showcases in the museum’s mineralogical exposition. The perpetrators used an angular grinder and a burner in burglary. The tools used were found at the crime scene.
An unnamed police source for Le Parisien added that the alarm and monitoring systems of the museum were deactivated in July by cyber attacks. According to the source, the thieves apparently were aware of this vulnerability of the object.
According to the museum’s management, they stolen natural gold nuggets of about 600,000 euros, but they have an incalculable value as part of the cultural heritage. AFP explained that natural gold is a metal alloy containing gold and silver in their natural, unrefined form.
Several French museums have been the target of theft in recent months
In its statement, the Natural History Museum pointed out that several museums have been the target of theft in France in recent months. They did not mention them in detail, but AFP recalled a recent theft at Adrien Dubouch Museum in Limoges in Central France, where the thieves stole two plates and vase from Chinese porcelain at an estimated price of € 6.5 million.
Last November, four men with axes and baseball bats broke the showcases in the Cognacq-Jay Museum in Paris and fled with several works from the 18th century. The next day, during an armed robbery at the Department-Eet-Loire Department Museum, they were stolen from several million euros in Central France.
