Chasing the Louvre Loot: Inside Antwerp's Jewellery Underworld

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French and Belgian police are searching for $102 million worth of jewelry stolen from the Louvre, and the investigation is now increasingly leading to the "underground" Antwerp jewelry industry, which is believed to have been a "conduit for laundered stolen jewelry from all over Europe" for years.

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Antwerp is the epicenter of the world's gem trade, both legal and illegal. After the Louvre robbery, French authorities asked Belgium for cooperation in tracking down the stolen items.

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October 19 will remain engraved in the history of the Louvre. In less than eight minutes, two men hoisted by a nacelle to the Apollo gallery have broken a window and got hold of an out-of-standard loot: the jewels of Queen Marie-Amélie, Queen Hortense and Empress Eugénie, estimated at some 88 million euros. This spectacular flight, worthy of a film scenario, revealed a no less spectacular fact: the protection of the most visited museum in the wo…

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Antwerp has been the center of the world diamond trade for centuries, but also home to a "growing underground," the agency points out.