"When 15-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux realised an Associated Press photo of him at the Louvre on the day of the crown jewels heist had drawn millions of views, his first instinct was not to rush online and unmask himself. Quite the opposite. A fan of Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot who lives with his parents and grandfather in Rambouillet, 30km (19 miles) from Paris, Pedro decided to let the mystery linger."
"Fedora man, as users dubbed him, was cast as an old-school detective, an inside man, a Netflix pitch or not human at all. Many were convinced he was AI-generated. Pedro understood why. In the photo, I'm dressed more in the 1940s, and we are in 2025, he said. There is a contrast. Even some relatives and friends hesitated until they spotted his mother in the background. Only then were they sure: the internet's favourite fake detective was a real boy."
Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux, a 15-year-old from Rambouillet, became an internet figure after an AP photo captured him at the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist. The picture shows three police officers leaning on a silver car blocking a Louvre entrance and a sharply dressed lone figure in a fedora and three-piece suit walking past. Online users dubbed him 'Fedora man' and speculated he was a detective, insider, or AI-generated. Pedro and his mother had come to visit the Louvre without knowing about the heist. AP photographer Thibault Camus caught him midstride while they asked officers why the gates were shut.
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