Sentences handed down in high-profile case over Drouot thefts

On Tuesday, 6 September, the Paris Criminal Court convicted 38 of 49 defendants in a high-profile trial that opened in March over a complicated web of thefts within the lUnion des commissionnaires de l'Htel des Ventes (UCHV), the former art handlers union of the Htel Drouot in Paris. The grouppopularly called the cols rouges for the red collars on their uniformsheld a monopoly on art handling at the auction house from 1860 until 2010. The UCHV, held in equal shares by its 110 members, was disso