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Is This Dapper Man Going to Crack the Louvre Heist Case?
The New York Times ^
| Oct. 23, 2025
| Alisha Haridasani Gupta
Posted on 10/24/2025 12:44:27 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Is he even real? The internet had many questions after a photo began to circulate.
It was, in nearly every way, an ordinary photo distributed by The Associated Press to news media outlets. It showed three policemen leaning against a silver car parked in the courtyard of the Louvre Museum in Paris just hours after the brazen theft of a collection of French crown jewels on Sunday.
But then there was the dapper man standing jauntily on the right side of the photo.
The officers, the A.P. caption said, were there to block the entrance to the museum. But the man, dressed in a buttoned up vest, a trench coat and a fedora, who seemed to be surveilling the scene, was more than enough reason for the internet to pounce.
In the days since the photo was uploaded, social media users — who had been
romanticizing the crime as a
Hollywood movie — have dreamed up numerous theories of who the unnamed man could be.
He was, many suggested, a detective assigned to the case who happened to have taken more than a few style cues from fictional characters like Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot.
“Never gonna crack it with a detective who wears an actual fedora unironically,” Melissa Chen, a tech executive based in London,
wrote in an X post that has been viewed more than five million times. “To solve it, we need an unshaven, overweight, washed-out detective who’s in the middle of divorce. A functioning alcoholic who the rest of the department hates.”
Others urged Netflix to secure the rights to the man’s story for a future series. Some said he was simply being French.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
10/24/2025 2:31:40 PM PDT
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nutmeg
(We are all Charlie Kirk now)
To: P8riot
To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC
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10/24/2025 2:58:42 PM PDT
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P8riot
(You will never know Jesus Christ as a reality in your life until you know Him as a necessity.)
To: P8riot
To: kiryandil
They need Lovejoy on this one...
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Clouseau!
To: E. Pluribus Unum
To: sasquatch
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posted on
10/24/2025 4:43:52 PM PDT
by
Komarlady
(Where have all the spork weasels gone?)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
10/24/2025 5:33:57 PM PDT
by
mass55th
(“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
To: kiryandil
"Pendergast is on the case."
I've been reading Preston and Child books, including the Pendergast novels since "Relic." Have pre-ordered their next book "Pendergast: The Beginning."
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10/24/2025 5:38:59 PM PDT
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mass55th
(“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
To: sjmjax
"In other words, they need a French Columbo!"
Chief Inspector Maigret.
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10/24/2025 5:40:24 PM PDT
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mass55th
(“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
To: chopperk
"Whole heist was an inside job."
I agree.
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10/24/2025 5:40:53 PM PDT
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mass55th
(“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
To: rx
"By someone who was well aware of the opportunity occasioned by two relatively recent DEI hires."
Or someone who previously worked at the museum, or worked security.
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10/24/2025 5:41:45 PM PDT
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mass55th
(“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
To: P8riot
“Do you have a license for your monkey?”
That's minkey.
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10/24/2025 5:42:43 PM PDT
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mass55th
(“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
To: mass55th
Oh, boy - a new Pendergast book!
You don’t mess with The Pendergast. 😉
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10/24/2025 5:43:06 PM PDT
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kiryandil
(No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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10/24/2025 5:44:45 PM PDT
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mass55th
(“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
To: Georgia Girl 2
CHIEF Inspector Cloueseau. 😏
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10/24/2025 6:25:42 PM PDT
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babaloo999
(Liberals say they're "Progressive". So is cancer.-------------------they're, their, whatever)
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