"The 36-second clip, which Le Parisien newspaper said it had verified, shows two men dressed in black, one wearing a yellow hi-vis vest and the other a motorcycle helmet, slowly descending on a furniture lift from the museum's Apollo gallery. It appears to have been filmed from a nearby window in the museum, looking on to the Quai Francois Mitterrand."
"Two of the four-man gang broke into the gallery at 9.30am on Sunday, shortly after the museum opened, smashing an apparently unsecured window and then using disc cutters to open two display cases containing the jewellery. They made off with eight pieces including an emerald and diamond necklace that Napoleon I gave his second wife, Marie Louise, and a diadem that once belonged to the empress Eugenie, wife of Napoleon III."
A 36-second video shows two men descending a furniture lift from the Louvre's Apollo gallery and leaving on scooters after stealing crown jewels. The thieves parked a stolen truck with a 30-metre extendable ladder and basket lift on the Quai Francois Mitterrand to reach the first-floor gallery. Two of the four-man gang smashed an unsecured window shortly after opening, used disc cutters to open display cases and took eight pieces including an emerald and diamond necklace from Napoleon I and a diadem once owned by Empress Eugenie. French interior minister Laurent Nunez deployed over 100 investigators. The museum director acknowledged highly insufficient external camera coverage.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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