Heist at Louvre Leaves Museum Missing Priceless Jewels
Thieves used cherry-picker, angle grinder to saw through window and steal royal artifacts, officials said
PARIS—A group of thieves sawed through a window in a gilded gallery in the Louvre Museum on Sunday morning, making off via motorcycle with a set of priceless royal jewels, French officials said.
Over the course of only seven minutes, three or four individuals used a cherry picker from a nearby renovation site to reach a window of the Galerie d’Apollon, Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said on French radio. There, the thieves used an angle grinder to cut a hole in the window to get inside.
Early indications are that stolen objects include jewels from the Napoleonic display case and related to French royalty, a policy official said. The thieves fled via the roads along the Seine River, the official added.