French authorities detained suspects in connection with the theft of precious jewellery from the world-famous Louvre museum in Paris. In the latest heist, a gold collection thousands of years old was taken in a lightning-fast raid from a Spanish museum.
Madrid, Spain - Thieves on Thursday raided the Treasure of Villena -- one of the greatest bronze-age gold collections -- in the latest high profile heist on a European museum, officials said.
A spokesman for the council in the Spanish town of Villena said it was not immediately known how many of the 50-plus mainly gold objects in the collection were taken as police were still making an inventory.
The raid lasted just minutes. "The alarm at the Villena Museum went off around 5:20am," said the spokesman, adding that by 5:24am the thieves had already left the building.
The operation was "super-fast and super-professional", the spokesman said.
