[Global Times Special Correspondent in France Dong Ming] On the morning of the 19th local time, a major robbery occurred in the Louvre, a famous French museum, and a batch of precious jewelry was stolen. The museum immediately announced that it would be temporarily closed and would not be open to the public for the rest of the day.

Agence France-Presse reported that the case occurred at around 9:30 a.m. on the 19th. Several fully armed and masked men dressed as construction workers broke into the Louvre in Paris from the construction area on the side of the Seine River and used the elevator to enter the Apollo Gallery exhibition area. The entire crime lasted only about 7 minutes. Nine pieces of Napoleonic jewelry, including necklaces, brooches, earrings and crowns, were finally stolen and successfully escaped.

The French Ministry of Internal Affairs confirmed that four of the gangs involved in the incident were experienced and well-equipped criminals who ¡°evidently did a major investigation¡± and used professional tools to cut the glass using a circular cutting machine to display the stolen jewelry¡¯s heritage value could not be estimated. However, the Louvre interior officials revealed that the most famous collection of the ¡°Royal King¡¯s Diamonds¡± weighing 140 docs was not lost, nor did the entire case injure anyone. According to the latest news from the French ¡°Paris Man¡± newspaper, two stolen jewelry items have now been found outside the Louvre, including the Crown of the Queen of Orleans, the precious item suspected to have been damaged when the bandits escaped, and the overall loss of the collection is still under further

In response to the theft, the Paris prosecutor¡¯s office has announced an investigation into ¡°organized gang theft¡± and ¡°criminal gang¡± as well, and the Parisian senator Brozart has criticized the responsibility of the Louvre security department, saying: ¡°Already on June 16 this year, the Louvre closed due to a workers¡¯ strike, when there were officials warning that it was difficult to protect the collection¡¯s security, why didn¡¯t anyone listen to these warnings?¡±

French culture minister Dati said the vulnerability of museums has always been a big problem, ¡°Now museums have become the target of criminals, their methods are very professional, and museums do need to adapt to this new type of organized crime challenge.¡±