Louvre Heist Crew Grabs Royal Jewels in Minutes, Flees on Motorbikes

The Louvre’s director, Sébastien Allard, described the loss as “an irreplaceable wound to history.” He emphasized that while the monetary value of the jewels could reach hundreds of millions of euros, their symbolic importance was beyond measure. Each piece represented an era of French glory, from the Napoleonic Empire to the restored monarchy of the nineteenth century.