Chinese woman charged over gold theft at Paris Natural History Museum


FILE photo: A gold nugget on display at Paris's Natural History Museum in 2020. - Photo: AFP file

PARIS: A Chinese woman has been arrested and charged over the theft of gold from the Natural History Museum in Paris, in one of several recent high-profile break-ins targeting French cultural institutions, a prosecutor said Tuesday (Oct 21).

The theft -- by what the museum's director at the time said was an "extremely professional team" -- took place on September 16, a little over a month before an audacious jewellery heist at the world-famous Louvre museum on Sunday.

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