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Louvre, Thieves Carried Out Heist

From the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911 to the French Crown Jewels heist this past weekend, the Parisian museum has seen some audacious crimes over the decades.

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How the Louvre heist unfolded

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How Thieves Carried Out Heist of ‘Priceless’ Louvre Jewels

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Thieves rob France's Louvre of priceless jewels in bold daytime heist

Thieves in balaclavas broke into Paris' Louvre museum on Sunday, using a crane to smash an upstairs window, then stealing priceless objects from an area that houses the French crown jewels before esca...

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'Race against time' as police try to recover 'priceless' jewels stolen from Louvre

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How thieves pulled off daring seven-minute heist at the Louvre

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Louvre jewellery heist: How masked gang raided museum and snatched ‘priceless’ jewels in broad daylight

In just seven minutes, the thieves are reported to have taken around nine “priceless” jewels from a collection once owned by Napoleon Bonaparte’s family and the Empress Marie Louise.

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Paris launches huge manhunt after priceless Napoleonic jewels stolen from the Louvre as the Mail reveals the audacious daylight raid minute-by-minute

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'Priceless' jewels stolen in raid on Louvre Museum in Paris

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What the Louvre thieves are likely to do with the ‘priceless’ jewels

The objects taken were France’s royal jewels, formerly belonging to the Empress Eugénie, Napoleon III’s wife and arts patron

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He was arrested a year later, while robbing an apartment, and sentenced to eight years in prison, along with being fined €104m (£90.3m). But the paintings have never been recovered. In 2023, Vjeran appeared in a Netflix documentary in which he went through the heist in detail.

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Louvre jewellery recovery unlikely even if police catch robbers behind brazen museum heist

The brazen heist of crown jewels from the Louvre, the world's most visited museum, has been decried by some as a national humiliation and sparked security checks across France's multitude of cultural sites.

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Brazen heist at the Louvre snatches priceless royal jewellery

Chainsaw-wielding robbers broke into the Louvre in Paris on Sunday and made away with jewellery, several sources said, leading the world’s most visited museum to close for the day.