Theft ends on high note

AN 18th-century cello worth $A2 million was returned to an award-winning French musician after she was robbed at knifepoint in a Paris suburb.

An attacker had forced soloist Ophelie Gaillard to hand over the cello and her mobile phone outside her home in Pantin on Thursday.

Gaillard appealed for help on Facebook. “I received an anonymous call late in the morning saying that my cello was inside a car in front of my house. I found it in the back seat,” she said on Saturday.

The cello, made in Udine, Italy, in 1737 was loaned to her by a bank.