France returned more than 400 stolen artifacts to the government of Pakistan, including ancient busts, vases, urns and goblets, some dating to the second and third millennia BC
Evelyne Sarti, deputy to the inter-regional director of Paris airport customs, looks at some artifacts amongst the 445 artifacts from the 2nd and 3rd millennium BC, which were seized by French customs between 2006 and 2007, before being returned by French authorities to Pakistan, during a ceremony at the Embassy of Pakistan in Paris, France, July 2, 2019.
The packages were intercepted by customs officers at Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport and identified by the National Centre for Scientific Research as items looted from cemeteries in Pakistan's Indus valley. And during a search of the unnamed gallery's premises, customs officers seized several hundred more ceramic pieces.
A cameraman films some artifacts that were seized by French customs between 2006 and 2007, before being returned by French authorities to Pakistan, during a ceremony at the Embassy of Pakistan in Paris, France, July 2, 2019. "It was not only greedy smugglers that encouraged it but the international art market as well," she said. "These lootings used to be prevalent in this region of Balochistan."
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