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The Paris prosecutor said Tuesday that crown jewels stolen in a dramatic weekend Louvre heist were worth an estimated 88 million euros ($102 million),
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Louvre director will appear before lawmakers amid ongoing investigation into priceless jewels theft
The president and director of the Louvre Museum has been summoned to appear before French lawmakers amid the ongoing investigation into the heist of priceless jewels.
In that sense, the Louvre heist wasn’t really art crime, Vernon Rapley, a former leader of the London police force’s art squad, told my colleague Alex Marshall. It was “commodity theft.”
The iconic Louvre museum has been forced to close after a gang of power tool wielding thieves launched a brazen daylight heist, making off with priceless jewellery.