The heist at the Natural History Museum in Paris marks another incident in a rising trend of high-profile burglaries in Europe
A Chinese national has been charged over a €1.5 million gold heist last month at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, Franceinfo reported on Tuesday, citing the prosecutor’s office.
The disappearance of nearly 6kg of gold was discovered by museum staff on the morning of September 16. The nuggets had been part of a permanent exhibit.
According to prosecutors, the stolen items included Bolivian nuggets donated to the Academy of Sciences in the 18th century, pieces from Russia’s Ural region gifted by Tsar…
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