The police in the French capital Paris have taken action against a ring of card fraudsters at the Louvre Museum.
As reported by French police circles on Saturday, 14 suspects were arrested.
According to the newspaper Le Parisien, the dealers had taken the tickets from visitors who had just come out of the museum.
Then they resold the tickets to tourists waiting in line at the entrance.
The dealers therefore sold paper and electronic tickets and asked for more than the original purchase price.
The police operation on Wednesday "enabled the arrest of 14 people, eight of whom were taken into police custody," a police official said.
The other six suspects therefore had no residence permit and are now in custody pending deportation.
The Louvre in Paris is the largest museum in the world and houses hundreds of thousands of works of art such as the famous "Mona Lisa".
In 2021, 2.8 million people visited the Louvre - before the corona pandemic, there were around ten million visitors a year.