"The thieves parked a moving truck with a ladder below the museum's Apollo Gallery housing the French crown jewels, ascended in a bucket, broke a window and used angle grinders to cut into glass display booths containing the treasures. Four people have already been arrested and charged over the theft - three men and a woman. One of those men, a 37-year-old, was in a couple with the woman and they have children, Beccuau said earlier this month."
"The thieves dropped a diamond- and emerald-studded crown that once belonged to Empress Eugenie, the wife of Napoleon III, as they escaped. But they made off with eight other items of jewellery including an emerald-and-diamond necklace that Napoleon I gave his second wife, Empress Marie-Louise. The loot has still not been found."
The thieves used a moving truck with a ladder and ascended in a bucket to access the Apollo Gallery, broke a window and used angle grinders to cut into glass display booths containing the French crown jewels. Four people have been arrested and charged over the theft, comprising three men and a woman. One arrested man, 37, was in a couple with the woman and they have children. The thieves dropped an Empress Eugenie's diamond- and emerald-studded crown during their escape but escaped with eight other pieces, including an emerald-and-diamond necklace given by Napoleon I to Empress Marie-Louise. The stolen items have not yet been recovered.
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