French National Porcelain Museum was robbed of €9.5 million

The Adrian Dubouche National Porcelain Museum, located in southwestern France, was robbed on Wednesday night. The damage is estimated at €9.5 million. This was reported on September 4 by the French magazine Paris Match.

"The stolen items were displayed as part of a temporary Chinese porcelain exhibition. They belong to a private individual," the authors of the material clarified.

The theft at the museum was discovered at 3:30 a.m. local time (4:30 a.m. Moscow time).

The Adrien Dubouche National Porcelain Museum houses the world's largest public collection of Limoges porcelain, including works by antique masters. The museum's collection totals 18,000 works, 5,000 of which are currently on display.

Earlier, on January 26, exhibits from the Dacia exhibition were stolen from the Dutch Drenthe Museum in Assen during a raid. Kingdom of Gold and Silver", dated to the 5th century BC. The attackers blew up the wall of the museum to enter the room where exhibits from the collection provided by the National Museum of History of Romania were displayed. Among the stolen items is the famous golden helmet from the Romanian municipality of Cotsofenesti.

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