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They may only be worth $10 million if taken apart and the stones sold. That is what the US officers who looted the Hesse crown jewels after WWII did.
1 posted on 10/23/2025 10:20:16 AM PDT by xxqqzz
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Bitcoin ransom would be the most profitable route - offer at 1/3 of value and the whole thing disappears as insurance pays it off.

At least that’s how the art boys handle it.


2 posted on 10/23/2025 10:22:26 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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I hope they bought the replacement-cost insurance.


3 posted on 10/23/2025 10:28:58 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait.)
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DEI hires for head of security. Plus, 4 guards were confronted by the two thieves and ran off — the thieves had only power tools and the guards were unarmed.

Yet, the Froggies assure us that the system worked. Think on that the next time you touch anything from Froggie land: food, drink, airplanes, etc.

As to the jewels, you’d have to be some kind of idiot to have not already broken them up and melted the metal. These are old jewels, no ID sketched onto them.


6 posted on 10/23/2025 11:00:42 AM PDT by bobbo666
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This is a DEI case too

Museum director was woke female who railed about lack of women in museum curatorship. Hired female director of security.

Who is surprised?


7 posted on 10/23/2025 11:08:11 AM PDT by PGR88
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“The Louvre museum’s security apparatus did not fail, that is a fact,” the minister, Rachida Dati, told lawmakers in the National Assembly. “The Louvre museum’s security apparatus worked.”

Can you imagine that answer being given by the British Prime Minister during Question Time?

The decibel level would be over the top.


8 posted on 10/23/2025 12:12:47 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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Hard to believe they display the real jewels.

You’d think they’d just use costume jewelry. How many would know the difference?


9 posted on 10/23/2025 12:27:29 PM PDT by Fledermaus ("It turns out all we really needed was a new President!")
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"The Louvre museum's security apparatus worked."

Pretty hard to make that claim after losing $100M worth of jewels in a robbery. Isn't that what security is supposed to prevent?

I think the robbers might be willing to ransom the jewels, to be paid in crypto.

10 posted on 10/23/2025 12:30:34 PM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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Normally I favor law and order but I can’t stop laughing about this.

Apparently the female security genius moved the priceless artifacts from a highly secure vault into the equivalent of a jewelry store display case. To which the thieves said “Thank you very much!”


11 posted on 10/23/2025 12:39:55 PM PDT by DarrellZero
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