The owners of the castle of Vaux-le-Vicomte, near Paris, were sequestered in the night from Wednesday to Thursday and the thieves left with a booty estimated around 2 million euros, said the floor of Melun.
The owners tied up
The attack took place around 4 am A group of six criminals broke into the castle where the elderly owners live. The couple was threatened and tied up with ties found on the spot by thieves, who were unarmed. They forced the victims to give the code of their safe and took the jewels and jewels it contained. According to an initial assessment, the amount of loot would reach 2 million euros.
The prosecution gave the investigation to the judicial police of Versailles, which was on site in the morning. Largest privately owned property in France, with an area of 500 hectares, the Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte welcomes 250,000 visitors each year.
This architectural masterpiece, built between 1656 and 1661 a fifty kilometers south of Paris, earned its owner, Nicolas Fouquet, the jealousy of King Louis XIV, who made him imprison for life. Legend has it that the king ordered his arrest after a sumptuous party in honor of the court, which dazzled Louis XIV with his jets of water, his fireworks, his impressive buffet given for more than a thousand people and the quality of his shows. After the arrest of Nicolas Fouquet, the monarch seized the castle and emptied it of its most beautiful objects to transfer them to the Louvre Palace and Versailles.