Break in a starred restaurant in Denmark: the looted wine cellar

A gaping hole in the wall and sixty vintage wines to absent subscribers: this is the discovery announced Monday, February 24 by the owners of a star restaurant in Copenhagen who launched a call on social networks to find their bottles.

“ We are currently counting exactly what we are missing after the burglary that took place in our wine cellar on the night of Saturday to Sunday. The thieves specifically searched for rare wines with very high market value , ”said Rune Jochumsen and Kristian Arpe-Møller, who run Formel B, a Michelin star, on Facebook.

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Restaurateurs have estimated the value of the bottles, mainly Romanée-Conti (which are among the most expensive wines in the world) at almost 1.5 million crowns (200,000 euros). " It is a collection of wines close to the irreplaceable that we have built up for many years and which disappeared in just one night, " they wrote, calling on Internet users to share their publication in the hope of " miraculously »Find them.

The burglars broke into the cellar through the nearby shop, a wine merchant from whom they stole nothing, said Arpe-Møller to the local Ritzau news agency. " They just broke through the wall, " he said.