#louvre-heist

#louvre-heist

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PARIS -- The Paris public prosecutor reported on Wednesday that investigators are making "major progress" in solving the brazen Oct. 19 Louvre Museum heist and said two suspects in custody will be charged with "organized robbery." During a news conference on Wednesday, Laure Beccuau, the Paris Public Prosecutor, released new information about the two suspects arrested last weekend, but said the stolen jewels remain missing.

PARIS -- It was shortly after the stunning heist of the crown jewels at the Louvre when Paris-based Associated Press photographer Thibault Camus caught in his frame a dapperly dressed young man walking by uniformed French police officers, their car blocking one of the museum gates. Instinctively, he took the shot. It wasn't a particularly great photo, with someone's shoulder obscuring part of the foreground, Camus told himself.

Authorities say the thieves spent less than four minutes inside the Louvre on Sunday morning. They wheeled the freight lift up to the museum, rode the basket up the faade, forced open a window, smashed display cases and grabbed priceless Napoleonic jewels before spiriting away on motorbikes through central Paris. It didn't take long for the Germans to seize on the marketing opportunity. By Monday morning, Böcker's company had come up with a social media post featuring a photo of the freight lift - which is typically used for furniture and construction - and a slogan in German that translates to "when something needs to be done quickly."

Fishermen in Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago reported being afraid to return to work after the Trump Administration conducted the seventh of its lethal air strikes on suspected drug-trafficking boats since September, eighty-three year-old senator Mitch McConnell fell to the floor while answering a question from two volunteers about whether he supported ICE's practice of abducting people off the streets, and a team of four thieves dropped a Napoleonic empress's crown as they fled the scene of a seven-minute daytime

Fishermen in Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago reported being afraid to return to work after the Trump Administration conducted the seventh of its lethal air strikes on suspected drug-trafficking boats since September, eighty-three year-old senator Mitch McConnell fell to the floor while answering a question from two volunteers about whether he supported ICE's practice of abducting people off the streets,

New footage is giving the public a first look at one of the four masked men who scaled a balcony at the Louvre in France on Sunday and successfully made off with eight pieces of Napoleonic jewelry in a meticulously timed heist. Armed with power tools and dressed in high-visibility jackets, the gang broke through a second-floor window of the country's most famous museum, accessing the Apollon gallery via a maintenance area, where the French crown jewels are kept,