$4.5M in Jewelry Stolen in French Museum Heist

It’s becoming a familiar tune: A jewel heist took place at a French museum. In the early hours of the morning on Sunday July 5, the Musée Lalique in France was robbed of around 20 pieces of jewelry, worth about €4 million (approximately $4.5 million). The French newspaper Le Monde reports that around 5:30 am, a “gang of masked […]

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