VIDEO – The wonderful story of the 20 million euro Ming vase discovered within the parking zone of Roubaix | TF1 INFORMATION

A Ming vase value 20 million euros was stolen in April from a museum in Belgium…

Earlier than it was discovered on Could 28 in a parking zone in Roubaix (North).

The criminals thought they may get a ransom there, however it was the police who have been ready for them.

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Bénédte Linard, Minister of Tradition of French-speaking Belgium

On this story, the thieves made an enormous mistake: demanding a ransom of two million euros from the museum. Instantly, the police started on the lookout for them and the search took them to France, to Roubaix (North). A system worthy of the most important thrills, led in France by the Analysis and Intervention Group and the Lille Banditry Suppression Brigade, is then put in place. The curator of the museum meets in a small parking zone this Tuesday, Could 28, and goes there alone, armed with a bag containing hundreds of thousands in money. Two males of their twenties arrive on foot in a automotive… And instantly discover themselves surrounded by about forty plainclothes cops.

A number of seconds later, the precious Chinese language porcelain vase from the sixteenth century is discovered, a couple of meters away. On the identical time, 4 others have been arrested in France and Belgium, all of French nationality and already identified to the police. A “surprising end result” and one “actual feat”in response to Richard Veymiers, it was not anticipated that this treasure of a “historic and heritage worth”.

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“They went to a museum particularly to steal the centerpiece, which continues to be estimated at greater than 20 million euros. All of that, clearly, along with the ransom demand, means that there’s a entire logistics behind it. There’s a actual organized character. We’re a staff with construction and concepts for the long run. We’re, clearly, in organized crime.tells TF1 Suzanne Moser, the pinnacle of the inter-provincial service of the authorized police within the North.

The vase embellished with fish and multi-colored aquatic crops, positioned “underneath seal in a extremely safe location”to the royal museum “within the subsequent few days”. The establishment is already getting ready to current this wonderful story to the guests in its corridors. “This work tells issues concerning the individuals who made itexplains the historian Lyce Jankowski, an professional in non-European artwork, who works on this. And now this program is a part of pot historical past.”

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