"It took less than 10 minutes. At 9.30am on Sunday, four men arrived in a truck outside the Louvre in Paris. They drove right up under a balcony and put out a ladder with a furniture hoist. Two of them casually went 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 at 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."
At about 9:30am four men arrived in a truck at the Louvre, positioned a ladder and furniture hoist beneath a balcony, and two climbed to cut reinforced glass. Beyond the window lay the Apollo gallery, an ornate and highly prized room. Using an angle grinder the thieves breached display cases and removed France's crown jewels, then descended and fled on motorbikes. The entire operation took less than ten minutes and stunned the nation because the jewels had been repurchased for France after a prior sale. Art detective Arthur Brand, experienced in recovering stolen works and artefacts, stresses that time is critical to recover the jewellery intact.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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