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Title: Mystery 'gold ingots' found on Paris train are fake Post by: Chris from Nailsea on January 03, 2012, 19:51:38 From the BBC (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16392922):
Quote Twenty "gold" bars found in a case on a train near Paris last week have been found to be fake. A suspect package on board an RER train at Massy-Palaiseau station was examined by the bomb squad and found to contain what seemed to be 20kg (44lb) of gold. French police have now established that the bars are made of a base metal - with a thin coating of gold. The ingots would have been worth around 800,000 euros ($1m; ^670,000) if they had been genuine. Police in Palaiseau, south-west of Paris, told Reuters news agency that they were not ruling out the possibility that the fake bars were part of a scam - in light of the worldwide demand for gold. The find had prompted speculation that if classed as "treasure," the bars could be shared between the Paris transport operator and the conductor who found it. Hard luck, mate! ;D Title: Re: Mystery 'gold ingots' found on Paris train are fake Post by: JayMac on January 03, 2012, 20:16:18 Still, what with scrap metal prices these days then the conductor may still be in line for a few
Title: Re: Mystery 'gold ingots' found on Paris train are fake Post by: inspector_blakey on January 03, 2012, 21:23:11 Give it a few more weeks and it might be
Title: Re: Mystery 'gold ingots' found on Paris train are fake Post by: bigdaz on January 04, 2012, 19:21:46 Mon dieu! Quel malheur!
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