{"id":210861,"date":"2025-10-19T11:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T11:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/210861\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T11:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T11:27:08","slug":"louvre-museum-in-paris-closed-after-robbery-french-minister-says-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/210861\/","title":{"rendered":"Louvre museum in Paris closed after robbery, French minister says &#8211; live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thieves escaped on a scooter with nine items of jewellerypublished at 10:51 BST<\/p>\n<p>10:51 BSTBreaking<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/088292f4-662f-422c-9a18-45c000bc6829.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Hugh Schofield<br \/>Paris Correspondent<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Details are sketchy but French media are reporting that three masked men broke into the Louvre shortly after opening time this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They\u2019re said to have used a goods lift to get access to the Apollo Gallery, on the Seine River side of the museum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This ornate room is where what remains of France\u2019s crown jewels are kept.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The thieves are said to have been carrying small chainsaws.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They made off with nine items of jewellery and they escaped on a motor-scooter. The value of the haul is being evaluated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thieves escaped on a scooter with nine items of jewellerypublished at 10:51 BST 10:51 BSTBreaking Hugh SchofieldParis Correspondent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-210861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}