Louvre museum heist -- priceless jewels stolen

[HelenaRavenclaw]

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c62lnennzgdt

C'est incroyable, non?

I'm astounded they got in so easily!!!

Sacre bleu

And it was during regular hours when tourists and full security were around, not in the dead of night!

Like a movie! Unbelievable!

Bastards 🥲

Quel dommage!

Do you think they had to negotiate all the laser beams like they do in the films?

Inside job. Sacre Bleu.

Was just asking my partner this, lol.

I was looking for the exact time and found it: 9:30 am, when the museum had been open to the public for half an hour already! Did the thieves want to blend in with the crowd to make their getaway? How could they risk such a heist knowing that anyone could walk in to the gallery while they were robbing it? It makes sense only if they had someone already on the inside put up a 'temporarily closed for cleaning' sign at the entrance to that particular gallery.

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The PM will resign again now. 😊

Just been hearing about it on the news. It was the Napoleonic crown jewels apparently and one of the crowns was found lying on the ground outside damaged. Obviously the robbers dropped it in their haste. Wish I'd been strolling past. Mon dieu!

Sounds like they didn’t care if anyone saw them. In and out in 7 mins, they put a hydraulic type ladder on the back of a truck up to a window and smashed the window (I assume from the outside). Had some sort of disc cutter/small chain saws…if I was a tourist i wouldn’t be tackling them!

The crown was thrown from a window and smashed on the ground outside.

Gobsmacking method, like something worthy of a Feathers McGraw jewel heist. Are we sure the robbers weren't claymation figures?

I'm just amazed the Louvre was so poorly defended, tbh.

My son just said feathers mcgraw must have inspired them....

😂 Cross posted!

It is just like that, isn't it?!

@BunfightBetty it does make me wonder.....its such a shame though its beautiful museum

It’s like a film isn’t it? I half expect Inspector Clouseau to turn up!

Makes you wonder what they are going to do with what they’ve taken.

They can hardly start flogging it off.

Does anyone know where Lupin was this weekend?😁

😂

Has someone checked the zoo to make sure Feathers is still locked up?

I also think it must be an inside job, it seems unbelievable. It is funny though, i know someone now will pay extortionate amounts for them and they'll sit in some private vault somewhere, but I really don't understand why. Even if I had billions I wouldn't want to buy them.

I expect it’s some Chinese billionaire or a Russian oligarch who’ll buy them. They are probably out of France by now.