According to French media reports, several masked people sneaked into the Louvre Museum in Paris, France on the 19th and robbed a number of treasures.French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said the value of the stolen artifacts was "unestimated".
According to preliminary details disclosed by French media, several cover-up personnel entered the museum from a construction site near the Seine River side, in the Apollo longitudinals containing large amounts of treasure.
In an interview with French media, Nunes said the “major robbery” was completed by “an experienced team” in “extremely short time.”According to him, the suspect used a lifting device on the truck to enter the museum and smash the glass to commit the crime. The whole process took only seven minutes, and the value of the stolen cultural relics was "incalculable."The suspect is currently at large.
According to French media,The suspect stole nine jewelry items from the Napoleonic era, including a necklace, thorns, and a crown.The "Regent Diamond" weighing more than 140 carats was not taken away. A piece of jewelry was left behind during the suspect's escape and has now been recovered.According to the newspaper, a crown was found outside the Louvre Museum and was damaged when found.
French culture minister Lassida Dati said on social media that no one was injured in the incident, citing witnesses saying that “tourists were generally in panic” and that “everyone in the museum ran and knocked on the glass door and tried to escape, but it didn’t help.”
French media quoted Nunez as saying that the museum "is making every effort to find the perpetrator as soon as possible".
According to CCTV News, NunezAlso said,This is clearly a “group of pre-stepping points, old-fashioned experience, and extremely fast action.”It also announced that all core department personnel of the Paris Police Department would be fully engaged in operations.
He said he was "full of confidence" in finding the perpetrators as soon as possible.
According to CCTV International News, citing French media reports, today (October 19) the theft at the Louvre Museum in Paris took placeA total of 4 people committed crimes, two of them were wearing worker clothes and yellow reflective vests,Use the lifting basket to enter the Louvre from the outside, and the other two people drive motorcycles to meet them.The stolen jewelry from the Louvre included the crown. The suspect stole a total of 9 pieces of jewelry, of which 2 pieces, including Queen Eugenie's crown, have been recovered. The news has not been confirmed by French police.
According to the cover news, Hera (a pseudonym), who is engaged in explanation work in the Louvre, told reporters that she happened to have a work appointment at 10am that day, so she arrived at the gate of the Louvre 20 minutes in advance. When she arrived, Hera found that the Louvre was closed. The staff at the door told her that it was closed for unknown reasons shortly after the normal opening at 9: 00 a.m. Because there was no official news at that time, Hera didn't care, so she waited at the intersection. Soon, the sound of a large number of police cars roaring past came, which made her a little shocked, and the audience who had already entered the venue were evacuated in a very short time.
It was around 10:30 a.m. local time, when a friend working in the Louvre came to Herav, telling her that the Louvre jewelry hall had been robbed.
"I was a little scared at first because there was no definite information at first, but the staff sent me a message saying that there seemed to be gunmen inside. At that time, I was wondering if there would be a terrorist attack because I was right at the door." Hera told the cover news reporter,"After getting the exact information, I was not too shocked. Because the security of the Louvre has always been average and in name. But I still feel very heartbroken, because this is the cultural heritage of all mankind. These things may never be found back in the future, and then they will never be seen again."
In fact,The robbery of the Louvre Museum is the third robbery of major French museums in two months.
On September 17, the National Museum of Natural History in Paris was stolen by thieves, and natural gold nugget specimens worth about US$700,000 were stolen. "We are facing a very professional team who knows the goal very well and carry professional equipment," the curator said.
On September 4, the famous Adrian Duboucher National Museum in Limoges, southwestern France issued a notice stating that three unique China porcelain pieces were stolen from the museum, including two pieces of porcelain from Jingdezhen, China (dated from the 14th and 15th centuries respectively), and an 18th century vase. It is reported that the insured value of these stolen cultural relics exceeds US$7 million.
In addition, the Elysée Palace of the French presidential palace said President Macron had been listening to Interior Minister Nuñez and Minister of Culture Dartmouth on the progress and investigation of the armed robberies at the Louvre since the morning of the 19th.
Regarding the theft of the Louvre Museum today (October 19), Alexandre Gikelo, president of the Druot Auction House in Paris, one of France's largest auction companies, said that it would be best for criminals to realize the seriousness of their crimes and voluntarily return these jewelry.Because these jewelry is so famous, it is almost impossible to sell the stolen goods, even if they try to dismantle the jewelry and sell it separately.
Gickello compared the theft to the 1911 Mona Lisa theft, saying the thief did not realize the seriousness of his behavior, and eventually the painting was hidden under his bed.
Crown of Queen Eugenie (data map) Napoleon Foundation website
Gickello also said that it is currently difficult to make an accurate estimate of the stolen jewelry because the official details of the case have not been released.But the "Queen Eugenie Crown" left behind by the thieves during their escape may be worth tens of millions of euros.He stressed that the stolen items represent the cultural heritage of France and that their value cannot be measured simply in money.
It is understood that Queen Eugenie's crownIt is Napoleon.Leon III made the crown for his wife Orinée, the whole body of gold material, also embedded in diamonds and grandmother green.
Edited |Chen KemingDu Hengfeng
proofreading|Xu Shaohang
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