Louvre jewel heist: Everything we know about the brazen robbery
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The daylight heist took place in less than eight minutes inside the world’s most-visited museum.
The Louvre Museum in Paris remained closed on Monday as police continue to investigate a brazen daylight heist that lasted less than eight minutes in total a day earlier inside the world’s most visited museum.
On Sunday, thieves rode a basket lift (or cherry picker) up the Louvre’s facade and smashed an upstairs window and display cases before fleeing with priceless Napoleonic jewels, officials said.
The heist took place about 30 minutes after the museum opened, with visitors already inside, and unfolded just 250 metres from the Mona Lisa.
Here’s everything we know so far about one of the highest-profile museum thefts as a manhunt for the perpetrators is underway in Paris.
At around 9:30 a.m. local time on Sunday, masked thieves used an electric ladder and grinders to break into the second-floor Galerie d’Apollon (Apollo’s Gallery), which is a large room where the Crown Diamonds are displayed, including the Regent, the Sancy and the Hortensia.
The intruders forced open a window, cut panes with a disc cutter and went straight for the glass display cases, officials said.
Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said the crew entered from outside using a cherry picker via the riverfront facade to reach the hall with the 23-item royal collection.
The thieves smashed two display cases and fled on motorbikes, Nunez said. Alarms brought Louvre agents to the room, forcing the intruders to bolt, but the theft was already done.
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