Louvre Robbery: Thieves Carried Out An Audacious Heist of Priceless Napoleonic Jewels

TIME

The Louvre will remain closed all of Monday after a brazen daylight heist rocked the world-famous museum the day before. Visitors who were queuing outside the glass entrance were turned away in the morning. Ticket-holders are set to be refunded.  It took only a few minutes for thieves to execute the robbery at the Paris landmark on Sunday, coming away with jewels of “inestimable value” that had once belonged to Napoleon and his empresses.  The robbery at the Louvre, which is the world's most-visited museum and boasted 8.7 million visitors in 2024 alone, has shocked the country, drawing a quick response from government ministers, who arrived at the crime scene within hours.

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00:00In any case, there are many museums at Paris, there are many museums in France, there are

00:09inestimables in these museums. The fact that the windows, for example, have not been

00:12secure, it's a question that we can ask, that there is a amount of charge on the public,

00:15it's a question that we can ask. For having been placed inside, I know that we can't

00:21do total security of all the places, but what is true, is that we have failed,

00:26because we are able to put a amount of charge in the plain street of Paris, to make

00:30up the people in a few minutes, to make up the jewels inestimable, and to give an image

00:33deplorable of France.

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