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2 weeks agoAfter Museum Heist, Syrian Cultural Authorities Face Scrutiny Over Lack of Transparency
Six Roman-era statues and gold ingots were reported stolen from the Damascus National Museum; an official post listing items was briefly published then deleted, raising transparency concerns.
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4 weeks agoLouvre Heist Exposes Years of Security Failures, Including Passwords a Child Could Have Guessed
Long-flagged security vulnerabilities and outdated systems at the Louvre enabled a rapid daylight theft of Napoleonic jewels, including a surveillance password 'LOUVRE'.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month agoThe heist of the decade - podcast
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.
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2 months agoPrecious gold samples stolen in raid on French natural history museum
In the early hours of Tuesday morning, an apparently well-planned criminal operation targeted the museum's geology and mineralogy gallery. Cleaning staff detected the break-in later that day and museum teams saw that four to six pieces of gold were missing. The thieves are believed to have used an angle grinder and blowtorch to force their way into the riverside museum that sits on the edge of Paris's Jardin des Plantes. It is an unprecedented theft from the high-security museum. A museum spokesperson said
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