Six Arrested After 12 Million Euro Robbery on Precious Metals Facility in the French Republic

A group of six individuals using assault rifles and handguns employed explosives to break into a gold refining laboratory located in Lyon, France, resulting in minor injuries to five workers during described as the most recent prominent daylight theft to occur in the country.

The daring raid took place on Thursday late morning, with officers rapidly detaining the individuals believed responsible and retrieving the loot estimated to be worth 12 million euros (£10.5 million), according to officials.

Five workers of the gold refining company were slightly hurt due to the explosion, and three of them were taken to a medical facility for examination, the regional prefecture announced. Twenty-eight workers were inside the facility when the thieves struck.

The suspects, considered career criminals, were arrested a brief time later in the neighboring community of the town of Vénissieux, authorities revealed.

A female accomplice who participated in the raid was taken into custody as well, officers confirmed.

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

Assault rifles, handguns and explosives were likewise seized.

The raid happened as law enforcement in France on Thursday arrested five more suspects, including a primary suspect, in regarding the recent audacious Louvre museum robbery.

Numerous detectives have been searching for four perpetrators who utilized a lorry with a hydraulic lift and cutting equipment to breach a first-floor gallery at the renowned museum on the nineteenth of October, making off with precious items estimated to be worth €88 million.

In another notable incident, burglars recently broke into the French capital's Natural History Museum, stealing gold samples worth over $1 million. A woman from China, aged 24 was apprehended in the current month in Barcelona, Spain in connection with the break-in, officials confirmed.

The string of thefts has sparked worry in France regarding lax security at museums and various establishments housing valuable items.