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Thieves strike Louvre in brazen jewel heist

A daylight heist and a national 'humiliation': How 7 minutes at the Louvre stunned France

In the space of just 7 minutes in the casual daylight of Sunday morning, four suspects stole nine pieces of France’s crown jewels from the Louvre.

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Louvre Museum heist: 'We have failed,' says minister, as France launches search for jewel thieves

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Thieves broke into the Louvre Museum in Paris, stealing jewelry of "inestimable heritage and historical value" in brazen heist

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This isn't the Louvre's first high-profile heist. Here's a history of earlier thefts

The Louvre Museum in Paris is closed after masked thieves stole priceless jewels in what officials have described as a seven-minute heist in broad daylight.

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Di priceless jewels robbers tiff from Louvre Museum for Paris

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Factbox-What Jewels Did the Louvre Thieves Steal?

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Thieves steal 'priceless' jewels from Paris' Louvre, flee on motorbikes

"We saw some footage: they don't target people, they enter calmly in four minutes, smash display cases, take their loot, and leave. No violence, very professional," she said.

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Louvre remains closed as French police hunt for thieves who stole crown jewels

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Thieves Hit the Louvre Again. Here's a Look at Other Famous Heists in Museums Worldwide

France scrambles to protect museums

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Louvre Heist Sparks Security Scramble Across French Museums

France ordered a security review at the Louvre and checks at other cultural sites on Monday while a hunt was underway for thieves who lifted priceless crown jewels in an audacious daylight heist at th...

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France scrambles to protect museums after Louvre heist

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Louvre Heist Leaves France Asking How it Could Have Happened

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France intensifies hunt for Louvre thieves

French police have stepped up the hunt for thieves who stole priceless royal jewels from the Louvre museum in a daylight robbery.

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Can France retrieve its priceless crown jewels - or is it too late?

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What Will The Louvre Thieves Do With Their Priceless Loot? Shocking Plan Revealed

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Video shows Louvre thief breaking into glass as manhunt continues

The thieves rode a basket lift up to a second floor balcony, then smashed through a window, threatened guards with angle grinders and cut through glass display cases to steal eight items.

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Daring heist prompts museum security review in France

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Everything that was stolen in the daring Louvre heist

Historic jewels stolen in ‘national disaster’ for France: What we know about missing Louvre treasures

The precious artifacts snatched from Paris’s Louvre Museum on Sunday include an emerald necklace gifted by Napoleon to his second wife and other priceless jewels.

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Louvre heist adds to history of high-profile museum breaches, leaves other galleries on edge

Museum security concerns rise after the latest Louvre robbery, as experts recall other major art thefts, including the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's still-unsolved heist from 1990.

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How Louvre gang carried out France's most shocking theft

A minute-by-minute look at the daring Louvre robbery, using maps, photos and video to unravel how one of the world’s most famous museums was breached.

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Louvre robbery leaves Paris' iconic museum shuttered for a second day

The Louvre will remain closed for a second day running on Monday, management told the Agence France-Presse, after thieves stole crown jewels from the museum in Paris a day earlier. "The museum is not opening today,

French official admits Louvre mistakes

France's justice minister acknowledged security failures Monday, the day after thieves made off with Napoleonic jewels in a daylight heist at Paris' historic Louvre museum.

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‘Too late to recover Louvre jewels’, says expert; Telegram’s Pavel Durov calls it ‘sign of France’s decline’

Telegram's Pavel Durov slams the French government after the Louvre jewel heist. Experts fear the gems are lost forever.

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Famous American art thief Myles Connor reacts to Louvre Museum heist: 'They will be vilified'

Myles Connor walked into the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and walked out with a Rembrandt painting in the 1980s.

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Royal Heist at the Louvre: The Missing Tiaras Worth Millions and the One Crown That Got Away

Thieves at the Louvre museum stole eight items of "incalcuable" value from a collection of French crown jewels, including items belonging to Empress Eugénie, Queen Hortense and more