Posted on 10/20/2025 10:38:52 AM PDT by Mariner
It took only a few minutes for thieves to execute a brazen daylight heist at the famed Louvre Museum in Paris on Sunday morning, coming away with jewels of “inestimable value” that had once belonged to Napoleon and his empresses.
The Louvre, which is the world's most visited museum with 8.7 million visitors in 2024 alone, was closed for the day as police investigated how the robbers were able to carry out the most high-profile theft in modern French history.
"The theft committed at the Louvre is an attack on a heritage that we cherish because it is our History," President Emmanuel Macron said on X. "We will recover the works, and the perpetrators will be brought to justice."
The robbery at a symbol of French culture has shocked the country and dominated the news on Sunday. It drew a quick response from government ministers, who arrived at the crime scene within hours.
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Probably sold for their commodity value after the jewels are broken down and the metals melted.
The current custodians (all the French government and the Louve administrators are guilty of criminal negligence.
And this after Notre Dame.
The jewels and the metals are not close to the value of the actual items.
They will be kept in tack are are likely in the hands of a billionaire private collector.
Here’s some pictures of the pieces
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/stolen-treasures-crown-gutter-serious-190258485.html
They can’t sell them, they can only break out the valuable things which will destroy the original. They’d get maybe two cents on the dollar.
There is a great scene of Raging Bull when Lamotta breaks to jewels off his championship belt and goes to the pawn shop.
They tell him they jewels are worthless but the belt he destroyed was valuable.
The thing is why go to the trouble and risk to plan out such a caper merely for the melt value of the jewelry? It’s not much. They could have made more robbing a jewelry store.
That’s very unlikely. Arthur Brand, the art detective, seems to think that the idea of a collector wanting something like this just to ‘look at’ is largely a myth. He says they’ll be dismantled and possible re-cut, and the police have perhaps a week to find them intact:
It’s not just melt value.
Those metals surrounded some very, very big rocks.
Several millions in salvage value.
But simply priceless if left intact.
People are lazy, the people “guarding” this place wee asleep at the switch. There should be high tech motion sensor cameras all over the place being monitored electronically and by people. Not to mention window sensors. People are inept. But they get their 3 month vacations.
It had to be an inside job or information of it nobody outside if it could pull it off.
Pretty slick operation - simple, quick, and very specific. I wouldn’t think pros would bother unless they already had a buyer lined up.
People are lazy, the people “guarding” this place wee asleep at the switch.
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Same mentality goes for the SS guarding POTUS
This is why we can’t have nice things anymore.
So the Louvre’s armed security guards could not shoot at the burglars, even as the burglars were going down a motorized bin in their escape???
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