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Woman arrested following September gold theft at Paris museum

The theft took place at Paris's Natural History Museum on 16 September. AFP - GEOFFROY VAN DER HASSELT

A Chinese woman has been arrested and charged over the September theft of gold worth more than €1.5 million from the Natural History Museum in Paris, one of several recent break-ins targeting high-profile French cultural institutions, a prosecutor said on Tuesday.

The theft took place on 16 September, just over a month before the audacious jewellery heist at the Louvre on Sunday.

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