Local time 19 am, the French famous museum louvre major robbery occurred, a number of precious jewelry was stolen. The museum immediately announced the temporary closure, the rest of the day will no longer be open to the public.
AFP reported that the case took place around 9:30 am on the 19th. Several masked men dressed as construction workers, who were fully armed, broke into the Louvre Museum in Paris from the construction zone on the side of the Seine river, the elevator was used to enter the Apollo Gallery, where the heist took about seven minutes and resulted in the theft of nine pieces of Napoléon jewellery, including necklaces, brooches, earrings and crowns, and managed to escape.
The Ministry of the Interior confirmed that the four men involved were an experienced and well-equipped criminal gang that had “Clearly done some detective work” and used professional tools, use a disc cutter to cut the display glass. The value of the stolen jewels is incalculable. But Louvre insiders said the museum’s most famous collection of more than 140 carats of“Regent Diamond” fortunately not lost, the case did not cause injuries throughout. According to the latest news from the French Yogi Bear, two pieces of stolen jewellery have been found outside the Louvre, including the Queen Eugenie Crown, which was supposedly damaged when the robbers escaped, the overall loss of the current collection is still under further assessment.
In response to the theft, the Paris prosecutor’s office has announced that the“Organized gang theft” and“Criminal gangs” opened an investigation. There was a lot of talk, with Senator Broszat criticising the responsibility of the Louvre’s security services, “As early as June 16 this year, when the Louvre was closed because of a strike by workers, there were staff who warned that it was difficult to keep the collection safe,” he said. “Why didn’t anyone listen to those warnings?”
French culture minister Darty said that the vulnerability of the museum has always been a persistent problem, “Now that museums are being targeted by criminals and their modus operandi is very professional, they really need to adapt to the challenges of this new type of organized crime,” he said.