{"id":236686,"date":"2025-10-24T10:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T10:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/236686\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T10:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T10:34:09","slug":"watch-louvre-museum-thieves-slow-getaway-with-frances-crown-jewels-caught-on-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/236686\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Louvre museum thieves\u2019 slow getaway with France\u2019s crown jewels; caught on camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/october241-1.jpg\" alt=\"Watch: Louvre museum thieves\u2019 slow getaway with France\u2019s crown jewels; caught on camera\" title=\"Louvre museum thieves caught on camera escaping with the jewels.\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Louvre museum thieves caught on camera escaping with the jewels. A video has emerged showing two thieves calmly escaping the Louvre Museum in Paris with an estimated \u20ac88 million (\u00a376 million) worth of France\u2019s crown jewels \u2014 in what is being described as one of the country\u2019s most spectacular heists in decades.The 36-second clip, verified by Le Parisien, shows two men dressed in black \u2014 one wearing a yellow hi-vis vest, the other a motorcycle helmet \u2014 descending on a furniture lift from the museum\u2019s Apollo Gallery, where the jewels were displayed. <\/p>\n<p>Caught on Camera: Louvre Thieves Make BIZARRELY Slow Getaway After $102M Jewel Heist | WATCH<\/p>\n<p>The video, apparently filmed from a nearby window, captures them leaving the scene on scooters parked along the Quai Fran\u00e7ois Mitterrand, where a stolen truck with a 30-metre extendable ladder and basket lift had been stationed earlier.\u201cThey are going to leave,\u201d a voice, thought to be that of a security guard, is heard saying on a walkie-talkie. Moments later, another voice adds: \u201cDamn, there we go \u2014 the police.\u201dTwo members of a four-man gang broke into the gallery at 9.30 am on Sunday, shortly after the museum opened. They smashed an unsecured window and used disc cutters to open two display cases, seizing eight historic pieces, including an emerald and diamond necklace gifted by Napoleon I to Empress Marie Louise, and a diadem that once belonged to Empress Eug\u00e9nie, wife of Napoleon III.The heist, executed in under seven minutes, saw the men inside the gallery for just under four minutes.France\u2019s Interior Minister Laurent Nu\u00f1ez said more than 100 investigators have been assigned to the case. Speaking before French senators, Louvre director Laurence des Cars called the theft a \u201cterrible failure,\u201d admitting that security camera coverage of the museum\u2019s exterior walls was \u2018highly insufficient\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Louvre museum thieves caught on camera escaping with the jewels. A video has emerged showing two thieves calmly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,111883,356,75,111885,111887,111886,111884],"class_list":{"0":"post-236686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-crown-jewels-theft","14":"tag-design","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-frances-crown-jewels","17":"tag-louvre-museum-escape","18":"tag-louvre-museum-heist","19":"tag-paris-museum-robbery"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}