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.
This happens right as the Museum is going through a crisis following a cyber-attack this summer… They are still recovering from this in terms of IT. I’m not sure how related it is, but it could be that their security got impacted, and the thiefs knew it.