The world-famous museum in Paris is still closed on Monday after a masked gang raided one of its galleries.

A nice feel good comedy-crime-caper-film-plot news story for you all!

Breaking into the Louvre using a vehicle-mounted mechanical lift and cutting through a glass window? Excellent hijinks. Stealing the Fr*nch Crown Jewels? Cartoon villain material. Geting away by scooter? Of course you are.

10 / 10 would read again.

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  • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    25·
    3 months ago

    A tiara and brooch belonging to Empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III

    An emerald necklace and a pair of emerald earrings from Empress Marie Louise

    A tiara, necklace and single earring from the sapphire set that belonged to Queen Marie-Amelie and Queen Hortense

    A brooch known as the “reliquary brooch”

    If these weren’t a targeted theft with a buyer prepared beforehand they’re going to be very hard to sell.

    Incidentally that bow is absolutely gorgeous

    Museums seem to be fairly weak on security. If you’re aiming to heist something worth millions and you have a plan for selling it they’re probably the best place to do a burglary. The days of bank heists like the bolsheviks did are dead but there are other places worth millions that are far easier.

    • DerRedMax [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      8·
      3 months ago

      Crowns and diadems can easily be broken apart and sold in small parts.

      The thieves “are not going to keep them intact, they are going to break them up, melt down the valuable metal, recut the valuable stones and hide evidence of their crime,” Marinello said.

      It would be difficult to sell these jewels intact, he said.