Nevertheless, it is speculated that they could either be handed over to the National Art Museum of Cologne or sold to the public by the local government.
And even now, many of those that we're speaking to on the ground say that they will not leave the city site until they are guaranteed a peaceful, civilian transfer of law.
All this really does is formally charge the president and move the process over to the Senate where the Senate must hold a trial according to the Constitution.
Under the deal Hamas is due to hand over control of Gaza which it ruled for ten years to the Fatah dominated Palestinian authority and president Mahmoud Abbas.
With the French prime minister announcing that on the contrary, he was handing to local authorities now the responsibility of fresh measures to try and contain the latest rises.
And until he says so, that the powers of his office would be transferred to Mike Pence who would serve as acting president until the president's health improves.