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.
The fucked up part is that any historical or scientific value of the artifacts is going to be melted away so the thieves can sell the gold.
Anyone got an eye on Hobby Lobby over this? Stealing precious artifacts from museums has been their MO in the past.
Lupin ?
They got past the giant rolling boulder.
I’d look at the chair seats in the plowed over Rose garden at the Whitehouse.
