Platinum ingots, diamonds by the hundreds… Customs auctions its seizures

For one day, the Pierre Mendès France conference room of the Ministry of the Economy (Paris XII) will be transformed into an auction room. In this modern space, more accustomed to receiving the world’s great treasurers, especially on the occasion of the G 7, the auctioneer’s hammer will resound. Seven hours of sale, this November 4, to sell 350 objects, often luxurious, whose particularity is to have been seized by the customs services.