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Woman charged after 1.5m euros of gold stolen from Paris museum

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A Chinese-born woman has been charged for the theft of six gold nuggets worth about 1.5 million euros ($1.75m; £1.3m) from the Museum of Natural History in Paris last month, French prosecutors have said. The woman was arrested in Barcelona while trying to dispose of some melted gold, according to officials, and is being held in pre-trial detention. Famous for its stuffed animals and bone collections, the museum is home to a mineralogy gallery, from the where the gold was taken. Police found an angle-grinder and a blowtorch at the scene. The museum's alarm and surveillance systems had been disabled by a cyberattack, ... (full story)

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