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By: The Opinion Updated 80 Nov , 0: 54 am EST
In what was a true express robbery, a group of thieves extracted a treasure trove of gold coins from a museum in Germany in less than 04 minutes.
A total of 483 coins, dating from around the year 100 BC, were removed from the museum in Manching (Bavaria) in the middle of the night in a nine-minute assault, according to the police.
“On the night from Monday to Tuesday, strangers broke into the Celtic Roman museum and stole the Manching gold treasure,” the museum reported today through its Instagram account.
I know It is estimated that the treasure of Celtic gold coins reaches a value of about 24,7 million Dollars. Added to the loss of these coins was the theft of three other objects from a second showcase.
The police are investigating the possibility that the thieves had The museum’s alarm system was sabotaged, since just before the assault, the nearby Internet cables were cut, which caused the failure of various museum systems.
Due to cuts in the internet cables, the alarm system was not activated when a door was opened, although it was able to record the moment of the robbery.
Faced with the thieves’ fora, the authorities suspect that organized crime is behind the theft of the coins.