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Veteran detectives who have worked on similar cases said French investigators have a lot of evidence to work with in the Louvre jewel heist.
A separate post from the social media influencer Ian Miles Cheong, viewed over 90,000 times, reads, “The man in the fedora, who looks like he came out of a detective film noir from the 1940s is an actual French police detective who’s investigating the theft of the Crown Jewels at the Louvre. Pure aesthetic.”
It was, in nearly every way, an ordinary photo distributed by The Associated Press to news media outlets. It showed three policemen leaning against a silver car parked in the courtyard of the Louvre Museum in Paris just hours after the brazen theft of a collection of French crown jewels on Sunday.
The theft of French crown jewels overshadowed the robbery of some $100,000 worth of historical coins from a museum dedicated to philosopher Denis Diderot.
Meanwhile, the Louvre’s director, Laurence des Cars, is set to make a much-anticipated appearance in front of France’s Senate Culture Committee to answer questions regarding the museum's security and what went wrong on Sunday when nine pieces were swiped from the museum’s Apollo Gallery.
Master jeweler Stephen Portier said the Louvre robbers might recut the stolen gems, which would significantly decrease their value.
Just days after a stunning heist at the Louvre Museum, speculation is growing around where the lavish, stolen jewels that once adorned France’s royals might end up
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How Louvre burglars obtained truck-mounted lift to make off with jewels worth more than $100M
Thieves used a stolen truck-mounted moving lift to scale the Louvre and steal royal jewels worth over $100 million in a lightning-fast Paris heist.
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