America’s most infamous jewel thief slams Louvre robbers as ‘idiots’ — and reveals shocking way they could have smuggled gems out of Paris
NY Post
Loot in the booty?
The thieves who fleeced $102 million worth of jewels from the Louvre Museum may have hidden the precious pieces up their posteriors in a bid to smuggle them out of France.
That eye-popping hypothesis was made by America’s most infamous jewelry thief, Larry Lawton, who spoke with The Post about the headline-grabbing heist.
“I hope they had enough money to literally lie low and get out of the country,” Lawton, 64, said of the four thieves who pulled off the audacious — if somewhat haphazard — Paris robbery over the weekend.
Lawton looted 25 jewelry stores across America’s East Coast during the 1980s and ’90s, netting a total haul estimated at $18 million. He often zip-tied terrified store owners and customers during the daytime raids.
With his own experience as a reference, Lawton revealed that if the Louvre bandits — whom he described as “amateurs” and “idiots” — escaped on an airplane, they wouldn’t have put the jewels in their hand luggage.
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