Six Suspects Apprehended Following €12 Million Armed Raid on Precious Metals Facility in France

Six armed perpetrators using high-powered firearms detonated charges to breach the security of a gold refining laboratory located in the city of Lyon, causing light wounds to five workers during described as the newest significant broad daylight robbery to occur in the nation.

The daring raid occurred on Thursday afternoon, with law enforcement authorities quickly arresting the suspected perpetrators and recovering the stolen goods estimated to be worth €12M (10.5 million pounds), according to officials.

Five workers of the gold refining company received light wounds as a result of the detonation, and three employees were taken to a medical facility for examination, according to regional authorities. Twenty-eight workers were present on-site when the robbers attacked.

The individuals, considered experienced criminals, were taken into custody a brief time later in the neighboring community of the town of Vénissieux, according to investigative sources.

A female accomplice who took part in the robbery was also apprehended, a police source indicated.

“Six people who utilized explosives in an assault targeting a metals processing plant in the Lyon area were apprehended red-handed,” the nation's interior minister announced via X, lauding police for their “quick action, authority and management”.

Military-style weapons, pistols and explosive materials were recovered as well.

The raid happened as French police on the same day arrested five more suspects, among them a key figure, in relation to this month's brazen raid on the Louvre museum.

Dozens of investigators have been pursuing four robbers who used a vehicle equipped with a moving lift and cutting tools to breach a first-floor gallery at the prestigious institution on the nineteenth of October, fleeing with precious items estimated to be worth 88 million euros.

In a separate high-profile case, thieves last month entered illegally the French capital's Natural History Museum, making off with gold samples valued at more than one million dollars. A woman from China, aged 24 was arrested earlier this month in Barcelona, Spain in regarding the theft, officials confirmed.

The string of thefts has sparked worry in France regarding inadequate security measures at museums and other institutions housing valuable items.