Louvre Museum Thieves Escape in Broad Daylight

A video that circulated on social media on Wednesday, October 22, captured the moment thieves escaped from the Louvre Museum in Paris after stealing eight historical jewelry pieces valued at 88 million euros. BFMTV confirmed the authenticity of the video after verification.

The video, which lasts about 30 seconds, shows two individuals leaving the museum using a lift platform, one wearing a yellow jacket and the other a black jacket with a motorcycle helmet. Clearly calm, they surveyed their surroundings before jumping from the platform and then disappeared behind a nearby construction site fence. Moments later, they left the scene on a T-Max motorcycle, taking advantage of the slowed traffic to merge into the ring road south of the Île-de-France area.

During a questioning session before the Culture Committee in the French Senate, the General Director of the Louvre, Laurence des Cars, admitted that the museum was unable to detect the thieves early enough, noting that the weaknesses in the museum's surrounding security system are known and identified.

For its part, the French Ministry of Culture confirmed that the stolen items have immense heritage value, belonging to Queen Josephine, the wife of Napoleon Bonaparte, making the incident one of the boldest thefts in the museum's history.