A break-in was detected on Tuesday, with the intruders reportedly using an angle grinder and a blow torch to force their way into the river-side complex.

Thieves have broken into Paris’s Natural History Museum, making off with gold samples worth $700,000 in the latest of a worrying series of robberies from cultural institutions, according to the museum.

Famed for its dinosaur skeletons and stuffed animals, the National Natural History Museum in the chic 5th district of the French capital also houses a geology and mineralogy gallery.

A break-in was detected on Tuesday morning, with the intruders reportedly using an angle grinder and a blow torch to force their way into the river-side complex that is popular with Parisians and tourists.

  • themeatbridge@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    Or they are crimes of opportunity. Museum security is probably not what we see in movies, and smaller museums might leave the wrong person holding the right key at the right time.

    But the fact that there have been similar robberies would support your theory.