US EditionUS couple risk France trial over stolen shipwreck gold
- In 2022, Eleonora Gay Courter and her husband Philip, aged 80 and 82, were arrested in the UK for allegedly assisting in the illegal sale of gold bullion taken from an 18th-century French shipwreck.
- The gold bars were taken from the wreck of Le Prince de Conty, which sank near Brittany in 1746 and was discovered in 1974 before being widely looted starting in 1975.
- French prosecutors identified the Courters as sellers of at least 23 gold bars, 18 of which were sold online including via eBay for over $192,000, though the couple denies knowledge of wrongdoing.
- Their attorney Gregory Levy stated that the Courters were unaware of any wrongdoing, did not personally gain from the transactions, and believed that the rules governing gold differed significantly between France and the United States, which led them to underestimate the seriousness of the situation.
- French prosecutors have recommended a trial likely in autumn 2026, as an investigating magistrate has yet to decide, while the officially seized artifacts were returned to France in 2022 to preserve cultural heritage.
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