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Official: Organized crime likely behind Celtic gold heist

A senior official in southern Germany says that organized crime groups were likely behind the theft of a huge horde of ancient gold coins stolen from a museum this week

By AP News
Published - Nov 23, 2022, 06:49 AM ET
Last Updated - Jun 23, 2023, 11:33 AM EDT

BERLIN (AP) — A senior official in southern Germany said Wednesday that organized crime groups were likely behind the theft of a huge horde of ancient gold coins stolen from a museum this week.

The 483 coins were discovered in 1999 during excavations of an ancient settlement near the present-day town of Manchning and were on display at the local Celtic and Roman Museum.

“It's clear that you don't simply march into a museum and take this treasure with you,” Bavaria’s minister of science and arts, Markus Blume, told public broadcaster BR. “It's highly secured and as such there's a suspicion that we're rather dealing with a case of organized crime.”

Blume said that all of the museum's security systems, along with Manching's entire telephone network, had been disabled during the heist.

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