Louvre, Paris and Heist
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French investigators suspect that the Louvre robbers received confidential information about the museum’s security system before the theft, reports the British Telegraph, citing sources close to the investigation.
One of five Louvre jewel heist suspects freed without charge. Daring daylight robbery netted $102M in jewels. Investigation ongoing.
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The Last Time the Louvre Was Robbed
More than 25 years before Sunday's heist at the iconic museum, a thief took a 19th-century painting in broad daylight.
Paris’s Louvre Museum has always been a cultural touchstone, but a seven-minute raid on the centuries-old art institution over the weekend has inspired frenzied conversation the world over.
The dragnet tightened around the Louvre thieves on Thursday. Five more people were seized in the crown-jewels heist -- including a suspe
The robbers used a powered, extendable ladder to enter the targeted gallery and made off with their haul before police arrived. France's culture ministry said eight items were stolen, including an emerald-and-diamond necklace that Napoleon gave his wife,
George Clooney says the "Ocean's Fourteen" script is done and jokes that the franchise now has to live up to the Louvre heist. "It was cool. I mean, it's terrible. But if you're a professional thief like I am, I was very proud of those guys." https://t.co/OJLqO9fwdu pic.twitter.com/QtxTud3uw4
As a Frenchwoman who has lived in Australia, I’ve noticed it’s often the same French words that give English speakers the hardest time.
"If you're in a hurry," read the caption on the post next to a photo of the company's lift propped outside the Louvre.