"It took less than 10 minutes. At 9.30am on Sunday, four men arrived in a truck outside the Louvre in Paris, driving right up under a balcony and setting up a ladder with a furniture hoist. Two of them casually climbed up to the balcony and cut through the reinforced glass of a window; on the other side of the glass was the Apollo gallery, the most ornate and arguably the most beautiful room in the museum, Helen Pidd hears."
"Using an angle grinder, they broke into cases holding France's crown jewels, before escaping back down the ladder and disappearing on motorbikes. The audacious burglary of one of the most famous museums in the world has shocked France, especially because the jewels had been bought back for the nation after originally being sold, reports the Guardian's Paris correspondent, Angelique Chrisafis. The art detective Arthur Brand has spent his life hunting down stolen Picassos, artefacts and even Oscar Wilde's ring."
Four men executed a rapid burglary at the Louvre at 9:30am, driving a truck under a balcony and using a furniture hoist and ladder to reach a window. They cut through reinforced glass into the Apollo gallery, used an angle grinder to break into display cases containing France's crown jewels, and fled on motorbikes. The theft shocked the nation because the jewels had been repurchased for France after earlier sales. Arthur Brand, an art detective who has recovered stolen Picassos and artefacts, highlights possible motives for targeting a high-profile site and the urgency of recovering the jewellery intact.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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