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The director of the Louvre Museum, Laurence des Cars, on Wednesday admitted that the museum’s security cameras were “insufficient,” just three days after thieves made off with crown jewels worth over $100 million in a daring daytime heist.Addressing Senators, des Cars acknowledged that while all alarms had functioned during the burglary, the cameras did not…
AI image for representation. In just under seven minutes, four thieves scaled a furniture lift, broke through a window of the Louvre Museum in Paris, sliced open display cases with angle grinders, and made off with $102 million worth of crown jewels. But the real crime, experts say, is just beginning.Driving the news: A smash-and-scooter…
France’s Louvre Museum reopened to visitors on Wednesday, three days after closing due to a shocking 7-minute daylight heist.From 9.00 am (local time), the museum’s regular opening time, visitors began entering the renowned institution, though the Apollo Gallery, where the theft took place on Sunday, remains closed, as cited by AFP. ON CAM: Louvre Thieves…
Pic courtesy: X/ @oldroyalty1 Within a matter of four to seven minutes, thieves stole eight pieces of jewelry, which officials described as ‘incalculable’ value, from the Louvre Museum in Paris on Sunday. The daylight heist, which was orchestrated about 30 minutes after the opening, is among the highest-profile museum thefts in living memory. Taking advantage…
Mona Lisa (Louvre website), The Louvre museum (AP Photo) Paris’s world-famous Louvre Museum was shut down on Sunday morning following a shocking jewellery theft in which the robbers reportedly stole “nine pieces from the jewellery collection of Napoleon and the Empress”, France’s culture minister Rachida Dati confirmed. Police and museum officials are currently investigating the…
The world’s most famous Louvre Museum in France was expecting around 30,000 visitors (estimated), unaware of the fact that seven minutes of Sunday morning were enough to lodge another incident of robbery in its notorious history. It was nothing less than a filmy scene when an unknown number of thieves on scooters carrying chainsaws broke…
Louvre Museum closes after robbery (Pic credit: AP) A shocking incident hit a world-famous museum in France on Sunday morning when it reported a theft, prompting a shutdown for the day. Police said that an unknown number of thieves arrived on a scooter carrying small chainsaws and fled with jewellery after breaking into the Louvre….
