Priceless crown jewels stolen in 7-Minute raid of Louvre
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Masked thieves stole priceless jewels from the Louvre on Sunday morning. The Paris museum has suffered a string of successful art heists, dating back to the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911.
Sunday’s robbery at the Paris museum could be the latest example of thieves targeting museums for jewels and precious metals to break down and sell on.
Authorities were racing Monday to reassure the public about security at key cultural sites — and find the jewels stolen from the museum before they can be broken up and melted down.
A hunt is under way to find the four thieves before the jewels - which once belonged to French royals - vanish for good.
Paris Prosecutor Laure Beccuau says thieves who stole priceless jewelry from the Louvre Museum in a seven-minute heist may have been hired by a collector.
Precious artifacts snatched from Paris’s Louvre Museum Sunday include an emerald necklace set among more than 1,000 diamonds gifted by Napoleon to his second wife and other treasures of “inestimable” value.
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Thieves allegedly staged a heist in Paris at the Louvre Museum, targeting priceless jewelry displays, the interior minister said.