[meteorite-list] Urgent Attention: Major Meteorite Collection stollen !!!!

From: Anne Black <impactika_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 20:12:21 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <8CFECCD66500528-1958-47304_at_webmail-m174.sysops.aol.com>

Bruno,

I am very sorry to hear this, and I hope this gets resolved quickly.
However the names of the guily parties should be made public regardless
of the outcome. Just so they don't try that again on another dealer.

Also, it might be useful to post this one the French Forum. Do you have
the address?


Anne M. Black
www.IMPACTIKA.com
IMPACTIKA at aol.com


-----Original Message-----
From: The Earth's Memory <info at meteorite.fr>
To: meteorite-list <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Cc: imca <imca at imcamail.de>
Sent: Mon, Mar 11, 2013 5:39 pm
Subject: Urgent Attention: Major Meteorite Collection stollen !!!!


Dear list Members,

it is with consternation that we annouce you that we have been
victims of extortion at the beginning of the Tucson show
and finaly totaly robbed at the end of the Tucson show.

Fortunatly the criminals have been iddentified and one have admited
that he has the material. For security and procedure raison we will not
disclose their names at that time nor the circumstances, we can just
tell
you that two are Americans and one is Morrocan.

We and the Police have enough evidences and witnesses, that will lead
the
criminal team to be
punished by the full power of the Law.

We offered them to give back the material and we would not press
charges,
but it seems that they are not cooperating.
The French Police will involve FBI and INTERPOL in the next days as
they
don't return our inventory intact and at no cost NOW.

Here is a rapid list of what have been stolen and extorqued:
http://www.meteorite.fr/en/stolen.htm

this list is still partial as we are working on it, there are many
fossils
too.

Many of you know that these specimens are our and saw them in our room
or on
our web site for years,
please have a close look on that list, some specimens might be already
for
sell somewhere.

We ask any Dealer, Collector or Curator to be very carefull.

If you have been proposed any suspicious specimens, please report it to
us
or Eric Twelker off list.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Best from France,

Bruno & Carine
La Memoire de la Terre
The Earth's Memory
France
www.meteorite.fr


  
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