French police “race against time” to recover “priceless” crown jewels stolen in a daring Louvre Museum heist.
According to Sky News, the world-famous museum in Paris was forced to remain closed on Monday, October 20, after thieves broke into the gallery of the French Crown Jewels on Sunday morning, stealing historic jewellery pieces.
Art detective Arthur Brand declared the heist as the “theft of the decade” and noted that in order to recover historic jewels, the police were required to find thieves within a week.
Brand told Sky News, “These crown jewels are so famous, you just cannot sell them. The only thing they can do is melt the silver and gold down, dismantle the diamonds, and try to cut them. That's the way they will probably disappear forever… It's a race against time."
Nine “priceless” objects from the Napoleon era were stolen during the daylight theft. One of the items was recovered from the scene.
The remaining eight items have been named by the French culture. The stolen jewellery includes a tiara from the set of Queen Marie-Amelie and Queen Hortense, a necklace from the sapphire set of Queen Marie-Amelie and Queen Hortense, and an earring from the pair belonging to the sapphire set of Queen Marie-Amelie and Queen Hortense.
The other items were an emerald necklace from the Empress Marie Louise set, a pair of emerald earrings from the Empress Marie Louise set, a brooch known as the "reliquary brooch", a tiara of Empress Eugenie and a large corsage bow brooch of Empress Eugenie.
Justice Minister Gérald Darmanin accepted that the robbery was a failure of the French security service and said, “People were able to park a furniture hoist in the middle of Paris, get people up it in several minutes to grab priceless jewels and give France a terrible image.”
It is worth noting that in what appeared to be a professional heist, robbers stole “priceless” jewellery from the world’s most-visited museum in just seven minutes.
