Thieves steal ‘priceless’ jewelry from the Louvre in seven-minute raid
Thieves have stolen “priceless” jewelry from the Louvre in Paris, the world’s most-visited museum, in an audacious seven-minute raid on Sunday, the French interior minister has said.
Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez told radio station France Inter: “A major robbery took place this morning in the Apollo Room. Individuals entered the Louvre Museum from outside, using a external freight elevator that was positioned on a truck.”
The Apollo Room houses the French Crown Jewels, as well as treasures including Louis XIV’s hardstone vessel collection.
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Lots of risk for no financial gain, they should have taken something worth money at least.
Why do you think those objects have no value? These people are clearly very experienced, probably they already had a buyer before the heist. This stuff is sold for lots of money.
If they had value, they would be "priceful" but the article clearly states the opposite.
I'm sure you can find a little bit of value out of a gold crown with 1300 diamonds. The article never says the stolen items have no value, it says they are priceless, as such of a high value which can not be quantified. I guess it is the word "priceless" you're focusing on.
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The crown was later found on the pavement, there are a few earrings and pendants still to be found. For the values of the gems: gems from that time often have quite a crude cut by today's standards,and they are not individually of a high value. As with tea sets, it's the full original set that has priceless value. The more you break it into bits, then individual gens, the more the value goes down.
Clearly not a pink panther level job, though kudos for the ballsy heist.
This is why learning the English language is so hard for non native speakers
That's shit and that's the shit. Polar opposites.
"Fuck you" and "fuck you" are also polar opposites.
For such high profile items, the thief’s don’t sell them as is. They take apart the jewelry and sell the precious stones bit by bit.
It takes one unscrupulous jeweler to buy the stones, recut them and sell them.
My guess is that the jewels are already in pieces en route to a foreign country.
That's what police are claiming but it doesn't make sense to me to steal such high profile items only to break them down into the same loose gemstones that could be acquired in a thousand other ways. It makes a lot more sense that they have an intended destination.
Nic Cage didn't respond to questioning. Interesting
Was his motorcycle on fire? If not we need to call Jacky Chan right away.
Wouldn't put it past Hobby Lobby tbh
There are 8 items reported stolen so far, a ninth has been recovered:
https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010101145
https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010104292
https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010105008
Private collections of insanely rich exist
Not necessarily true gold can be melted down easily and stones can be removed
I'll wait for the movie to come out
No emperors either. Would be perfect if the thieves wore inflatable suits to disguise themselves.
They would just start mowing down frogs in the street
Kind of badass, not gonna lie.
There's nothing badass stealing jewelry from public museum in order to sell them to billionaires locking them in their mansion tbh.
If that were true there wouldn't be so many heist movies.
I'm sorry. The guards just let it happen because they were threatened with angle grinders? not even ranged weapons? Do they not have TASERs?