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		</div><p>Four Paris auctioneers and dozens of auction workers have gone on trial accused of a vast scheme to steal thousands of pieces of artwork and other valuable items worth millions of euros over several years.</p>
<p>The works included a Courbet painting, Chagall and Matisse lithographs and a 2.08-carat diamond.</p>
<p>Workers tasked with transporting the objects allegedly stole them and then later sold some of them with the complicity of auctioneers.</p>
<p>Nearly all of the 50 defendants involved in the case at the Hotel Drouot &#8211; the biggest, oldest and most famous auction house in France &#8211; appeared in a Paris court charged with gang-related theft, conspiracy to commit a crime or handling stolen goods.</p>
<p>They face up to seven years in prison and €175,000 in fines each if convicted.</p>
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