Thieves snatch celtic gold necklace from French museum
Thieves stole a 2,500-year-old gold necklace from a museum in eastern France on Friday, police said.
The robbery happened in broad daylight at the Chatillon-sur-Seine Museum in the Burgundy region.
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According to prosecutors, the thieves smashed the glass display case and quickly took the ancient Celtic gold necklace before escaping.
The mayor of the town, Jeremie Brigand, said the museum had already faced two attempted break-ins in recent weeks. Security had been increased, but the thieves were well organised and acted very quickly.
He said the robbers stole the necklace even though visitors, museum staff and security officers were present.
No one was injured during the incident.
The stolen necklace weighs about half a kilogramme and is around 2,500 years old. It was worn by the ancient Celts and Gauls as jewellery and as a sign of power.
It is part of the famous Vix Treasure, a collection of valuable objects buried with a princess and discovered in the nearby village of Vix in 1953.
The theft came just days after the Louvre Museum in Paris reopened its Apollo Gallery, where thieves stole eight valuable artefacts worth about $100 million last October.
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