Tomorrow, the civil “contract, liability” chamber of the Avignon tribunal de grande instance will have a new pre-trial hearing in the Golden Owl case. Perhaps the last, as hoped by the four parts of a lawsuit which only adds to the exceptional character of the longest ongoing treasure hunt in the world (almost 28 years). “Who could understand such a thing?”, Laughs today Michel Becker, who designed the statue in gold, silver and diamonds, valued at 150,000 €, promised to its discoverer. The artist, who still resides in Châteauneuf-de-Gadagne, despite the imminent outcome of his museum project dedicated to the mysterious bird in Charente-Maritime, has learned to live with “madness
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