#crown-jewels

#crown-jewels

Take Back Power, which describes itself as a nonviolent civil resistance group, appears to be an offshoot of Just Stop Oil and has previously claimed responsibility for both incidents.

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.