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| Mystery 'gold ingots' found on Paris train are fake | Mystery 'gold ingots' found on Paris train are fake |
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| 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. |