A gang of sophisticated thieves targeting valuable antique books has been broken up, Europol reported in The Hague on Thursday. Nine Georgians have been arrested in raids in Georgia, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania and France, the European Union’s law enforcement agency said. The gang is held responsible for the theft of at least 170 books, causing damage of around €2.5 million ($2.7 million) “and an immeasurable patrimonial loss to society,” Europol said. Some of the books had been sold at auction in St Petersburg and Moscow, “effectively making them irrecoverable,” it said. The thieves had focuse…