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Show BOGUS "ANTIQUES" FLOOD AMERICA, PARISIAN SAYS . offered explanations of the 'alleged Irregularities Ir-regularities and turned the trial Into a public denunciation of DcMotle as "Hie world's greatest antique faker." Ills diatribes- at limes became so violent vio-lent Hint the presiding judge In the Twelfth Correctional court, where' Hie trial In being held, Hireatem'il to have hlin removed from I he room If he did not restrain himself, "For twenty years the Louvre museum mu-seum has been buying bogus antiques," Vlgoiiroux testified. He declared Ihe (liroolor.H of Hie Metropolitan museum In New York had bought :t,000,(K) francs' woilh of spurious art objects. New York Museum and Louvre Are Victims, He Asserts. ',irHi America Is heavily loaded with bogus "anliques" 'and Ihe Louvre In 1'arls and the Metropolitan Museum of Art In New York have been buying spurious pieces for years, .lean Vlgoiiroux Vlgoii-roux told the court al Ihe opening of IiIh trial on charges of diverting ''unds and art treasures, filed by Hie Parisian anllquurlan, (leorge Joseph DeMolle, who:n New York branch was formerly managed by Vlgoiiroux. The specific charges against Vlgou roux are based on Ihe alleged diversion of $7,Ol0 of Ihe branch's funds and Ihe disappearance of Persian manuscrlplH valued al 1,000,0(10 francs, lalor r v- ered by M. I'eMolle. Vlgoiiroux wan arroMleil when lie returned to France, an he claimed, to obtain Just Ice. VlgourouJ denied any wrongdoing, |