Precious gold samples stolen in raid on French natural history museum

The National Museum of Natural History, one of Paris’s most visited, is the latest in a series of French museums to be robbed. Photograph: incamerastock/Alamy

Historic gold samples with a street value of €600,000 but priceless to scientists and researchers have been stolen from the French national natural history museum in the latest of a series of museum robberies in France.

“This has happened in a critical context for cultural establishments in France, particularly museums,” the Paris museum said. “Several public collections have been the victims of robberies in the past months.”