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In the library of the Bergerac courthouse (Dordogne), the prosecution exhibits, this Wednesday, April 27, a bric-a-brac of the most eclectic.
Behind the national police logo are piled up small bronze sculptures, Asian art objects, old coins, ivory tusks, machine guns from the Second World War...
And this is only a selection among the 7000 objects found by the Bergerac police as part of a theft investigation.
The rest is cataloged online, on a website set up by the Ministries of Justice and the Interior to allow owners to come forward.
"It's an extraordinary procedure in all its dimensions: the modus operandi, what we found and the number of objects",
describes Bergerac prosecutor Sylvie Martins-Guedes.
It goes far beyond someone who guards against thieves to protect expensive possessions, including those of sentimental value.
Sylvie Martins-Guedes, Prosecutor of Bergerac
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The name of the site, "objects-voles-police-bergerac.fr", speaks for itself: justice suspects these objects to be of fraudulent origin.
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