"In the early hours of Tuesday morning, an apparently well-planned criminal operation targeted the museum's geology and mineralogy gallery. Cleaning staff detected the break-in later that day and museum teams saw that four to six pieces of gold were missing. The thieves are believed to have used an angle grinder and blowtorch to force their way into the riverside museum that sits on the edge of Paris's Jardin des Plantes. It is an unprecedented theft from the high-security museum. A museum spokesperson said"
"The museum's director, Emmanuel Skoulios, told BFMTV: We are dealing with an extremely professional team, perfectly aware of where they needed to go, and with professional equipment. It is absolutely not by chance that they went for these specific items. Beyond the material value, for the museum this is above all about pieces in the national collection whose historic, scientific and heritage value is incalculable."
Historic native gold specimens from the French national natural history museum's geology and mineralogy gallery were stolen in a targeted, well-planned break-in. Cleaning staff later discovered that four to six pieces of native gold were missing after thieves used an angle grinder and blowtorch to enter the riverside museum. The stolen specimens are valued at about €600,000 by raw gold price but carry immeasurable scientific, historic and heritage value for research and public access. The museum described the operation as highly professional and unprecedented for the high-security institution, which temporarily closed the mineralogy gallery.
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