Museum theft sees 2,000 gold and silver cash stolen

Round 2,000 gold and silver cash value round 90,000 euros (£78,000; $104,000) have been stolen throughout a raid at one other French museum – simply hours after the audacious theft of a few of the French crown jewels on the Louvre in Paris.

The incident occurred at a museum devoted to French thinker Denis Diderot in Landres, north-eastern France on Sunday night time.

When the Maison des Lumières (Home of Enlightenment) opened on Tuesday, employees observed a smashed show case and raised the alarm, officers mentioned. The cash have been chosen with “nice experience”, an announcement to French media from the native authority mentioned.

It’s the newest in a current string of heists at cultural establishments throughout France.

Additionally in September, thieves stole two Chinese language porcelain dishes and a vase with an estimated mixed value of €6.55m from the nationwide porcelain museum within the central metropolis of Limoges. The gadgets are nonetheless lacking and no arrests have been made.

“They’re unsaleable on the artwork market. The items are too simply traceable anyway as a result of they’re so properly listed,” a ceramics knowledgeable informed Le Parisien newspaper on the time.

The heist that has made headlines throughout the globe was the brazen daylight theft of €88m value of historic jewelry from the Louvre museum in Paris.

A gang disguised as employees used power-tools and a mechanical ladder to achieve entry to the first-floor Gallery of Apollo on this planet’s most visited museum shortly after it opened on Sunday.

The loot included a diamond and emerald necklace Emperor Napoleon gave to his spouse, a tiara worn by Empress Eugenie, the spouse of Napoleon III, and several other items beforehand owned by Queen Marie-Amelie.

Artwork detective Arthur Model informed the BBC that there might be “copycats” working throughout the nation and a few gangs may do a number of “hits”.

The Louvre heist – in addition to the opposite incidents – have raised considerations in France across the lax safety at establishments that home a few of its most prized treasures.

Talking publicly for the primary time because the heist, the Louvre’s director Laurence des Automobiles informed French senators on Wednesday that CCTV across the Louvre’s perimeter was weak and “getting older”.

The one digicam monitoring the outside wall of the Louvre the place the theives broke in was pointing away from the first-floor balcony that led to the gallery housing the jewels, she mentioned.

“We failed these jewels,” des Automobiles mentioned, including that no-one was protected against “brutal criminals – not even the Louvre”.

A preliminary report discovered one in three rooms within the Louvre lacked CCTV and that its wider alarm system didn’t go off.

Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin mentioned safety protocols had “failed”, lamenting that the thieves having the ability to drive a modified truck as much as the museum had left France with a “horrible picture”.

Within the case of the gold stolen from the French Pure Historical past Museum, the constructing’s alarm and surveillance methods had been disabled by a cyber-attack, with the thieves apparently conscious of this, French media reported on the time.