{"id":221067,"date":"2025-10-23T20:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T20:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/221067\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T20:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T20:14:07","slug":"louvre-thieves-slow-motion-getaway-using-furniture-lift-was-caught-on-video-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/221067\/","title":{"rendered":"Louvre thieves\u2019 slow-motion getaway using furniture lift was caught on video | France"},"content":{"rendered":"

The slow-motion getaway of two thieves from the Louvre clutching \u20ac88m<\/a> (\u00a376m) of France\u2019s crown jewels was captured on video, it has emerged \u2013 the latest dramatic twist to the country\u2019s most spectacular heist in decades<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 36-second clip, which Le Parisien newspaper said<\/a> it had verified, shows two men dressed in black, one wearing a yellow hi-vis vest and the other a motorcycle helmet, slowly descending on a furniture lift from the museum\u2019s Apollo gallery.<\/p>\n

It appears to have been filmed from a nearby window in the museum, looking on to the Quai Fran\u00e7ois Mitterrand where the thieves had earlier parked a stolen truck with a 30-metre (90ft) extendable ladder and basket lift that they used to access the first-floor gallery.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe individuals are on scooters,\u201d a voice \u2013 possibly that of a security guard \u2013 is heard to say, apparently into a walkie-talkie. \u201cThey are going to leave, they are going to leave.\u201d Seconds later, the men can be seen heading off on two scooters.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are leaving,\u201d the male voice then says, while a different voice exclaims: \u201cDamn, there we go \u2013 the police.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two of the four-man gang broke into the gallery at 9.30am on Sunday, shortly after the museum opened, smashing an apparently unsecured window and then using disc cutters to open two display cases containing the jewellery.<\/p>\n

They made off with eight pieces<\/a> including an emerald and diamond necklace that Napoleon I gave his second wife, Marie Louise, and a diadem that once belonged to the empress Eug\u00e9nie, wife of Napoleon III.<\/p>\n

French media have estimated the operation took less than seven minutes, with the two men who entered the gallery inside for 3 minutes and 58 seconds. France\u2019s interior minister, Laurent Nu\u00f1ez, has said<\/a> more than 100 investigators are on the case.<\/p>\n

Questioned by senators on Wednesday, the director of the world\u2019s most visited museum, Laurence des Cars, acknowledged<\/a> a \u201cterrible failure\u201d, admitting there was \u201chighly insufficient\u201d security camera coverage of the outside walls of the vast building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The slow-motion getaway of two thieves from the Louvre clutching \u20ac88m (\u00a376m) of France\u2019s crown jewels was captured…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-221067","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\/221067","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=221067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}