Case of the missing angels from the basilica of Nantes: towards a trial for breach of trust. A contractor responsible for removing the statues in 2009 will be judged this summer.
Administrative justice must also decide in the coming months the question of the restitution of these goods, which have been resold in the meantime. One of these seraphic trumpeters ended up in a Spanish collection. Others were sold to individuals: here, a notary; there, an artist... Even the company responsible for creating the reproductions which today overlook the Basilica had offered itself one of the eight angels of Saint Nicholas.