A robbery occurred on the 19th at the Louvre Museum in Paris, the capital of France. Several masked men sneaked into the museum and stole a batch of treasures. French Interior Minister Nunez said the value of the stolen cultural relics was "incalculable"; the suspect is still at large.

Theft of European Museums in recent years.

In recent years, there have been many major thefts in museums in Europe.

In 2008, a group of thieves broke into the "Biller Foundation" museum in Zurich, Switzerland, and stole four oil paintings worth $160 million. These four paintings are by Van Gogh, Cezanne, Degas and Monet respectively. The works of Van Gogh and Monet were quickly recovered, while Cezanne's paintings were only found in 2012.

In 2010, the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, France was stolen, and five famous paintings with a total value of 120 million euros were stolen. These include Picasso's Dove and Pea, Matisse's Pastoral Song, and modigliani's Woman with a Fan. In 2017, three thieves were arrested, but claimed to have destroyed all five masterpieces.

In 2012, thieves stole seven paintings of artists such as Picasso, Mattis, Monet and others from the Conso Center for Modern Art in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, worth tens of millions of euros.In 2013, a Romanian man and several associates were convicted of the theft, but seven stolen paintings disappeared.

The Head of Woman, Picasso

In the same year, three pieces of art were stolen from the Greek National Gallery, including Picasso¡¯s 1939 ¡°Women¡¯s Head¡± and Dutch painter Mondrian¡¯s ¡°The Mill.¡± In 2021, Greek police announced that the two pieces had been found for nine years.

In 2019, the Green Dome Treasure Hall in Dresden, eastern Germany, was stolen, and thieves stole jewelry with more than 4,300 diamonds, valued at more than €1,100 million.

In 2020, Van Gogh¡¯s ¡°Spring Garden¡± was stolen during an exhibition borrowed to the Dutch singer Laren Museum, and in 2023, Dutch police announced that the painting would be recovered.

France has suffered three museum thefts in the past two months

The Louvre robbery has aroused widespread concern in French society about the safety of museums. In fact, this is the third theft in a French museum in the past two months.

On September 17, the National Museum of Natural History in Paris was stolen, and a sample of natural gold, worth about $ 700,000, was stolen.

On September 4, a museum in Limoges, southwestern France, theft and lost three Chinese pieces of porcelain.

In an internal letter to employees on the evening of 19 October, the Louvre Museum director Laurence Deca revealed that the Louvre had asked the Paris Police Office to conduct a special security assessment long before the incident occurred, and that the assessment report had recently been submitted by the police. The museum will further strengthen its existing security measures based on the assessment findings.

French media recalled that the last recorded theft of the Louvre occurred in 1998, when a painting by French painter Camille Corot was stolen during the day and has not been recovered yet. Earlier in 1911, Mona Lisa was stolen by an Italian painter, and the painting was recovered three years later.