Visitors were ushered from the world’s most famous art museum – The Louvre – on Sunday morning (19 October) as the realisation that a priceless, potentially history-changing jewellery heist had occured.
It only took a few minutes for a team of thieves in balaclavas to pull off this well-planned robbery.
At 9.30am (6.30pm AEDT), thieves entered the Galerie d’Apollon (Gallery of Apollo) on an upper level of the museum, which they accessed with a truck-top basket crane. After cutting through a window grille and smashing display cases, they fled on motorbikes with eight pieces from a collection of 19th century Napoleonic jewels – the remains of France’s historic crown jewels.
