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FILES) A picture shows gold bars and porcelain fragments looted from the French Prince de Conty shipwreck that were seized by US authorities, during their official restitution to France, in Brest, eastern France, on June 15, 2022. AFPCaption
An 80-year-old US novelist and her husband are among several people facing a possible trial in France over the illegal sale of gold bars plundered from an 18th-century shipwreck, after French prosecutors requested the case go to court.
Eleonor "Gay" Courter and her 82-year-old husband Philip have been accused of helping to sell the bullion online for a French diver who stole it decades ago, but have denied knowledge of any wrongdoing.
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