US EditionNew Surveillance Video Shows Louvre Jewel Heist in Action
Surveillance footage reveals thieves stole eight French crown jewels valued at $102 million, highlighting security lapses and ongoing staff strikes at the Louvre Museum.
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On 19 October the Louvre Museum suffered one of the most spectacular assaults in its history, when four men climbed up a staircase to the balcony that gives access to the Apollo gallery and, armed with radials, broke the windows where the Crown jewels were and took them away in less than seven minutes. Just after three months of the robbery, a French chain has published some unpublished images, the first ones inside the room, in which you can se…
Strike shuts Paris's Louvre again as video of jewel heist aired for first time
The Louvre museum was closed again Monday as staff continue their strike over pay and working conditions, three months after thieves stole crown jewels from the museum – footage of which was broadcast for the first time on French television Sunday night.
Three months after the theft and the arrest of the four suspects, investigators have very unclear ideas.
Equipped with cut-off grinders and gale hood, two perpetrators stormed the Louvre in Paris last year. New shots show how they robbed crown jewels worth millions of dollars while the supervisors watched them stand by.
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