They have not protected paintings from people throwing paint or soup on art so why should we be surprised they got robbed by jewel thieves? The Louvre needs to get it together regarding security,
They must have wealthy black market buyers or plan to melt it down - both have happened in these types of heists, b/c the stuff is so iconic and easily recognized.
“Dreyfus: Understand something Clouseau. When I made you an inspector, it was not because I thought you had any value as a detective. It was because I thought you were the stupidest policeman in all of France, a hopeless, deluded idiot.
- Clouseau: Then I was not promoted for my merits?”
Getting them contained before visitors arrived might be a problem. But, hey. I can’t think of everything.
Nuñez said the thieves used a basket lift, forced open a window and smashed display cases.
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Sounds like when my friend and I broke into our grade school back in 1973. We were 10. Not sure why we did it, (just because??) but we entered via a second floor window after climbing up a drainage pipe. The security at this museum sounds like it was on par with Grace Lutheran grade school. Pathetic.
A shallow prize for the effort. I could have those jewels in my top dresser drawer and never give them a thought.
Foreign banditos, they got away on motorcycles. Used chainsaws to break open the jewelry displays. Probably thieves are from the Balkans.
This was a well-cased and bold operation.
The French lie and spew falsehoods. It was not a robbery and none of the perps (if ever caught) will be charged with such.
You see, this event was a simple burglary.
Besides, the jewels that were taken were knock-offs. The real ones are either locked up in a highly secure safe or have been stolen many years ago.
Think for a minute, why do you think the crown belonging to Napoleon’s wife, Empress Eugenie, was discovered damaged outside the gallery? Because it was a cheap counterfeit.
Why not? There frogs allow illegal alien muzzies to come in and rape and murder their women without consequence. Why would anyone think they would care to stop thieves at the louvre?
Got to agree with Bon of Babble. Something this specific, they either already have a buyer or this was “burglary on commission.”
They also had inside help, so there are a lot of moving parts to this operation, which has “Organized Crime” written all over it.
It also bears mention that European mobsters sometimes steal high-profile art just because they can, even stuff they know they can’t fence, then stash it away for safe keeping to be used as a bargaining chip if/when they get caught dead to rights doing something else.
So the French government by it’s security laxity yet again surrenders.
LOL!
How pathetic.
I was shocked at how accessible most major works at the Louvre are. It's great to see them up close but in a world full of civilization-hating parasites the risk seems extreme.