Searching for the owner
The French police swiftly leaped into action to reunite the owner and his expensive emeralds and sapphires. They placed notices in local newspapers, posted on social media, and showed images of the gemstones on tv. They did everything they could to find the owner.
The news of the find made its way around the world. Millions of people saw the gemstones, so surely the rightful owner would make himself known. Every day there were thousands of messages from people saying they had accidentally lost a pile of gemstones on Mont Blanc.
It cost the French police a lot of effort to separate the real ones and the scams…