2023-11-25 00:26:03
– Three indictments for the theft of Pushkin manuscripts
Three people suspected of the theft of manuscripts by the Russian writer Pushkin were indicted this Friday.
Published today at 1:26 a.m.
A fake 1833 copy of the 1822 edition of a work by Alexander Pushkin.
AFP
Three people were indicted on Friday in Paris as part of an investigation into the theft, from libraries, of manuscripts notably by the 19th century Russian poet and novelist Alexander Pushkin, we learned from a judicial source.
On the night of October 9 to 10, two people broke into the university library of the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (Inalco), in the 13th arrondissement of the capital, by breaking the window of the entrance to using an iron bar, according to the same source. They came out with around ten manuscripts. Earlier in the day, two people had asked to see works by Alexander Pushkin in original editions.
The section of the Paris public prosecutor’s office responsible for organized delinquency first referred an investigation into theft committed by an organized gang to the Brigade for the Repression of Banditry (BRB). Investigators then made a connection with similar acts committed in Lyon in July. The investigations have since been entrusted to the Central Office for the Fight against Trafficking in Cultural Property (OCLBC). They led to the arrest of three people on Monday, according to the judicial source, confirmation of information from the Sunday Journal (JDD).
A book estimated at 60,000 euros
At the end of their police custody, the three suspects were indicted on Friday by an investigating judge for participation in a criminal association and organized theft. One of them was placed in pre-trial detention, the other two under judicial supervision. According to a source close to the case, it concerns a man, who was placed in pre-trial detention, and two women, from the same family and of Georgian nationality.
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