FRANCE: Drouot porters go to jail while auctioneers get suspended sentences
Former porters at the Hôtel Drouot, the communal saleroom facility used by most Paris auctioneers, have been sentenced to jail for the organised theft of thousands of artworks, a French court ruled on Tuesday September 6.
In a scandal that has rocked the French market since 2009, some 33 porters were convicted for steali…