Featured Jewellery stolen from Louvre.

Thieves robbed the Louvre during a seven minute action this morning. Priceless jewellery was stolen, possibly including some of the French Crown Jewels.
The museum closed its doors for the investigation.

https://www.wistv.com/2025/10/19/frances-culture-minister-reports-robbery-louvre-museum/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Crown_Jewels

https://www.parisdigest.com/museums/louvre-crown-jewels.htm

 

That is sad. Hopefully they can track down these lowlifes, and the eccentric collector that put the order in.

 

gotta be fast before they melt the gold and sell the jewels !

 

Maybe? But a regular jewelry store robbery would be less hot and just as lucrative. The extra worth of these jewels is what they are, intact. This smells like a commissioned heist for a single ultra wealthy jerk.

 

that could be...but the stuff stays HOT , forever !

 

They could also circulate in criminal networks, as payment, collateral, or something similar. A lot of well-known artworks are stolen for that reason.

 

Might they demand a ransom?

 

I'm thinking what Davey said - ransoming it for a percentage of value would be the smart play if you steal something like this. Getting a payout with no prosecution would be a win, relatively, for all parties.

 

My first thought...where in hell was security?
The person in charge should be looking for work already...an' perhaps be a 'person of interest'.
It reeks of Inside Job, to me.

 

Is that a cartoon symbol for Chanticleer?

 

It's a penguin in a chicken hat.

an inside job would not surprise me.

 

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The person in charge of security is not to blame, the problem lies higher up. And who left that ladder thing unblocked and unsupervised outside the Louvre, with direct access to the gallery the crown jewels were in?

The Louvre's security people have had to work nights for special events hosted by the Louvre. That means there wasn't enough security durring the daytime. This has been going on for a long time, and employees have been complaining about the lack of security for years, but the Louvre didn't want to invest in more people. They only wanted to rake in money from the nighttime events which had nothing to do with the collections.
You'd think they'd spend some of that money on extra security, but apparently not. The employees have been waiting for something like this to happen.
The Louvre has been burgled time and time again, but apparently it is business as usual after every theft.

 

That is what Dutch art detective Arthur Brand says will probably happen if the police don't find the jewels within a week. He also said that they will recut the stones because they are too wellknown. That means a lot of the diamonds will break during the cutting, because they are old cut diamonds.
Of course the real expert cutters won't be part of any of this, so it will be a diamond massacre, resulting in small diamonds which will be of much lower value than the original jewels, and a lot of diamond chips for cheap jewellery.

 

they dropped the crown during the get a way......... if it was going to some rich antique collector....... they gonna be pissed !!

I still vote for what AJ says !

 

I'm hoping Davey was right; they might make just as much money with a lot less work.

 

I watched a European news broadcast yesterday. I think it was German. They mentioned the French government had done a serious budget slashing that involved cutting a lot of security staff jobs from national museums. As AJ mentioned the remaining staff had been complaining about the dearth according to the report.

 

I thought I heard that the thieves had brought the ladder device themselves. They were dressed as construction workers or something similar so it didn’t look odd I guess. Maybe I heard wrong but that what I recall. It will be a travesty if the pieces get broken down.

edit: spelling. Also obv even if they were dressed as construction guys it should have gone noticed as unscheduled. They probably chose a Sunday morning because that’s kind of the laziest part of the laziest day of the week. Sleep in, relax, get brunch, take it easy time. Smart of their part.