Louvre values the stolen jewels at $100 million
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The president and director of the Louvre Museum has been summoned to appear before French lawmakers amid the ongoing investigation into the heist of priceless jewels.
It was shortly after the stunning heist of the crown jewels at the Louvre when Paris-based Associated Press photographer Thibault Camus caught in his frame a dapperly dressed young man walking by
The Louvre remained closed Monday after historic jewels were stolen in a daring daylight heist. Thieves used a basket lift to access the museum, smashed display cases, and fled with Napoleonic jewels.
The precious artifacts snatched from Paris’s Louvre Museum on Sunday include an emerald necklace gifted by Napoleon to his second wife and other priceless crown jewels.
In 1962, the Countess of Paris attended the wedding of fellow European royalty in Queen Marie-Amélie’s sapphires—which were snatched in what has become one of the worst thefts of its kind.
The Louvre robbers may have smuggled stolen jewels by shoving them in their bodies back door, according to America’s most infamous jewel thief Larry Lawton. Larry shared his two cents after four thieves stole $102 million worth of jewels from the Louvre Museum on Sunday,
The only camera monitoring the exterior wall of the Louvre where they broke in was pointing away from the first-floor balcony that led to Gallery of Apollo housing the jewels, she said. "We failed these jewels," she said, adding that no-one was protected from "brutal criminals - not even the Louvre".