Rare cello returned after knifepoint theft in Paris

An 18th-Century cello has been returned to a French musician after an appeal following her knifepoint robbery.

Ophélie Gaillard was robbed of the instrument and her mobile phone outside her home in Paris on Thursday.

After putting an appeal on Facebook, she received an anonymous call saying it was in a car outside her home. She found a window smashed but the instrument in "good condition".

The rare instrument is worth about €1.3m ($1.6m; £1.2m)

Made in 1737 by Italian instrument-maker Francesco Gofriller, it was loaned to Ms Gaillard from Crédit Industriel et Commercial (CIC) bank.

The instrument was stolen in its case, along with a bow that was itself almost 200 years old.


source: www.bbc.co