{"id":236042,"date":"2025-10-19T09:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T09:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/236042\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T09:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T09:57:08","slug":"louvre-museum-in-paris-closed-after-robbery-french-minister-says-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/236042\/","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\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/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 are said to have used an outside lift being used for renovation work to get access to the Apollo Gallery, on the River Seine side of the gallery. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This ornate room is where what remains of France\u2019s crown jewels are kept. The thieves are said to have broken windows to get in and then made off with nine items of jewellery. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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":236043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-236042","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-design","12":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}