Four-tonne cheese heist leaves French police stumped!

No cheesy theft this! Thieves in France broke into a dairy and stole four tonnes of cheese that is estimated to be worth a whopping 40,000 euros.
The cheese in question was not your regular Babybel either -- it was Comte, a luxury cheese which can only be made in the Franche-Comte region using unpasteurised cow's milk.
French luxury goods have often been the target of organised crime gangs with designer goods like hand bags and luxury products such as perfume often targeted. But times are changing and it appears thieves can make easy money stealing cheese.
On Monday the owner of the Napier dairy in the town of Goux-les-Usiers, eastern France, reported a break-in the previous night.

Thieves had helped themselves to approximately one hundred wheels of Comte cheese, The Local reported.
The thieves cut through barbed wire before forcing a back door of the building using that basic burglary accessory -- the crowbar.

In all they made off with around 100 wheels of the cheese, which can sell up to 40 euros a kilo for a particularly matured Comte. Estimates say the loot is worth anything from 40,000 euros upwards.
Comte is officially a protected cheese in France after being awarded the Appellation d'Origine Controlee, which means it can only be produced in that region.
The Montbeliarde et Simmental breeds of cow are the only type that produce the milk that is used to make the cheese, that can spend up to 36 months maturing in a cellar.

Police are focussing their inquiries on recent thefts of large vehicles which may have been used to store the cheese.
"With such a quantity, you need a means of transport and a distribution network," Daniel Prier, Head of the Chamber of Agriculture for the Doubs region, was quoted as saying.