Six Individuals Detained After 12 Million Euro Heist on Gold Processing Laboratory in France

A team of six suspects using high-powered firearms employed explosives to force entry into a gold refining laboratory located in Lyon, France, causing light wounds to five workers during what appears to be the latest high-profile daytime heist to affect France.

The bold operation occurred on the afternoon of Thursday, with officers rapidly detaining the alleged criminals and securing the stolen items valued at approximately 12 million euros (£10.5 million), as stated by authorities.

Five workers of the gold refining company were slightly hurt as a result of the detonation, and three employees were taken to a medical facility for evaluation, according to regional authorities. A total of twenty-eight staff were present on-site when the perpetrators raided.

Those arrested, considered experienced criminals, were arrested a brief time later in the nearby town of the town of Vénissieux, a source close to the investigation stated.

A female accomplice who took part in the robbery was likewise arrested, according to law enforcement.

“Six individuals who utilized explosives in a raid against a metals processing plant in Lyon were apprehended red-handed,” the French interior minister announced via X, lauding police for their “decisiveness, speed and control”.

High-caliber firearms, handguns and detonation devices were recovered as well.

The raid happened as French police on the same day apprehended five additional individuals, including a primary suspect, in relation to the bold theft at the Louvre.

Dozens of investigators have been pursuing four robbers who utilized a lorry equipped with a moving lift and cutting gear to break into an upper-level exhibition space at the prestigious institution on the nineteenth of October, fleeing with jewelry valued at approximately €88 million.

In a different significant robbery, thieves last month entered illegally the Natural History Museum in Paris, taking gold specimens valued at more than one million dollars. A young Chinese female was apprehended in the current month in Barcelona, Spain in relation to the burglary, officials confirmed.

This series of robberies has sparked worry in France regarding lax security at museums and various establishments containing precious artifacts.