FRANCE, Paris, Robbery at the Louvre, Oct 19, 2025

[Dotta]

Arsene Lupin is a character from the book. In real.life even seasoned burglars can panic and make mistakes. And as seasoned as they might have been, that was their first heist done in full daylight in the busiest French museum.

Hahaha
I know!

Oh, Arsene Lupin
Gentleman Burglar and his extraordinary adventures

He stole primarily from the rich who made their fortunes dishonestly,
often guided by his personal moral code.
He was a master of camouflage and illusion
who not only avoided justice,
but sometimes also administered it to criminals himself,
always in an elegant and classy way.

Fiction, of course.

Excellent French series!
A classic.
Great acting.

My childhood memories

Arsène Lupin | Serial | 1971

Arsène Lupin (1971) - Francja, początek XX wieku. Policja ściga bezskutecznie niejakiego Arsena Lupina, który okazuje się być gentelmanem-włamywaczem, mistrzem charakteryzacji,...

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[Dotta]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1982524882169528646

 

[bestill]

Looking forward to some updates on this and more info on these "seasoned burglars"!

 

[PrairieWind]

Lets just hope that those captured can help lead to the recovery of the jewels.

 

[Charlot123]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1982524882169528646

Well, if they still have it.. the arrest of two suspects changes the situation. It is one thing to "steal from the state of France", and a very different one - "to knowingly destroy the historic artifacts belonging to the state of France". A different level of crime. IMO.

 

[Dotta]

"Hunt on for remaining Louvre thieves ​

after first arrests are made.​

Police said DNA samples discovered at the crime scene helped identify the suspects.

'They left gloves, a walkie-talkie, a vest and a can of gasoline',
Axel Ronde, spokesman for the French police union CFTC, said in an interview Monday.

Ronde added that the two arrested suspects are men in their 30s,
who had prior convictions and were known to police as having previously targeted jewelry stores.

While police can hold suspects for up to 48 hours without charge,
in organized crime investigations like this one,
detention can be extended to 96 hours.

The hunt was on Monday for the thieves still on the run.

'I think there is going to be more arrests quickly',
said Robert Wittman, a former FBI art crime investigator.

Prosecutor Laure Beccuau said
that investigators continued to search for the stolen jewels and the remaining suspects
but that it was 'too early' to provide the public with any more detail."

Hunt on for remaining Louvre thieves after first arrests are made

Two suspects with histories of jewel thefts had been tracked for days after their DNA was recovered from the museum and were arrested shortly before one of them was set to board a flight out of the country, a police official told NBC News.

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[Dotta]

"Louvre heist suspects ​

have admitted involvement in jewels theft.​

Two suspects arrested in connection with the theft of France’s crown jewels from the Louvre museum
have admitted involvement in the heist
and have been remanded in custody,
the Paris prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday.

The Paris prosecutor also said
the stolen jewels are not in the authorities’ possession.

Both suspects were presented before an investigative judge on Wednesday
and placed under formal investigation for organized theft and criminal conspiracy,
according to Paris Prosecutor Laure Beccuau.

'There is nothing to suggest
that the four perpetrators benefited from any form of inside help within the museum',
Beccuau said in a Wednesday news conference.

The crime of theft as part of an organized gang
carries a potential 15-year prison sentence and a heavy fine,
the prosecutor said."

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/29/europe/louvre-heist-suspects-investigation-intl

Another link:

"Louvre suspects
‘partially admit’ their role in jewel heist.

Partially admit???

Beccuau said the two suspects
– both of whom were arrested last Saturday night, one at Charles de Gaulle airport outside Paris, reportedly as he was trying to catch a flight to Algeria –
were believed to be the men who had entered the Apollo gallery.

Their DNA had been found
on a display case and a scooter used in the getaway,
the prosecutor said."

Louvre suspects ‘partially admit’ their role in jewel heist

Police are no closer to recovering gems valued at £76m, despite the arrest of two men last week

www.theguardian.com

 

[TootsieFootsie]

MSN

AP The Associated Press

The two men arrested on Saturday night “are suspected of being the ones who broke into the Apollo Gallery to steal the jewels,” Beccuau said.

One is a 34-year-old Algerian national who has been living in France since 2010, Beccuau said. He was arrested at Charles de Gaulle airport as he was about to fly to Algeria with no return ticket. He was living in a suburb north of Paris, Aubervilliers, and was known to police mostly for road traffic offenses. His DNA was found on one of the scooters used by robbers to leave the scene, she said.

The other suspect, 39, was arrested at his home in Aubervilliers. “There is no evidence to suggest that he was about to leave the country,” Beccuau said. The man was known to police for several thefts, and his DNA was found on one of the glass cases where the jewels were displayed and on items the thieves left behind, she added.

 

[Dotta]

"Five new suspects arrested ​

in connection with Louvre robbery.​

Public prosecutor says arrests were made in and around Paris but suspects
‘did not help us find the stolen goods’.

Laure Beccuau told RTL radio on Thursday
the arrests had been made on Wednesday night in the French capital and the surrounding area,
particularly the neighbouring Seine-Saint-Denis department.

One of the men detained
'was a target of the investigators – we have traces of DNA linking him to the robbery',
Beccuau said.
'He’s one we had in our sights'.
The other four
'can give us information about how the theft was carried out',
she said.

Jewels stolen from the Louvre."

Five new suspects arrested in connection with Louvre robbery

Public prosecutor says arrests were made in and around Paris but suspects ‘did not help us find the stolen goods’

www.theguardian.com

 

[ChatteringBirds]

5 more arrests as Louvre jewel heist probe deepens and key details emerge

The Paris prosecutor says five more people have been arrested in the investigation into the theft of crown jewels from the Louvre Museum. The jewels are still missing.

apnews.com

"...The late-night operations in Paris and nearby Seine-Saint-Denis lift the total arrested to seven...
the latest arrests did not uncover the loot — a trove valued around $102 million..."

 

[Charlot123]

Louvre thieves tried to negotiate with Israeli firm to sell stolen jewels on Darknet, company says

Israeli firm CGI Group says Louvre ignored thieves’ offer to negotiate over stolen jewels, even after they showed proof; the thieves demanded tens of millions of euros as French police arrested five more suspects, but the jewels are still missing

www.ynetnews.com

“ Twelve days after a daring jewelry heist at the Louvre Museum, an Israeli security company said the thieves behind the theft reached out to it, offering to secretly negotiate the sale of the stolen pieces through the darknet.”

“Israeli firm CGI Group says Louvre ignored thieves’ offer to negotiate over stolen jewels, even after they showed proof; the thieves demanded tens of millions of euros as French police arrested five more suspects, but the jewels are still missing”

(Ynet is is the online outlet for the '''Yedioth Ahronot'' Israeli' newspaper.)

So I think it is reliable. But if so, do the thieves have a problem selling the stolen items given the level of noise?

 

[BlaiseFinlay]

Louvre thieves tried to negotiate with Israeli firm to sell stolen jewels on Darknet, company says

Israeli firm CGI Group says Louvre ignored thieves’ offer to negotiate over stolen jewels, even after they showed proof; the thieves demanded tens of millions of euros as French police arrested five more suspects, but the jewels are still missing

www.ynetnews.com

“ Twelve days after a daring jewelry heist at the Louvre Museum, an Israeli security company said the thieves behind the theft reached out to it, offering to secretly negotiate the sale of the stolen pieces through the darknet.”

“Israeli firm CGI Group says Louvre ignored thieves’ offer to negotiate over stolen jewels, even after they showed proof; the thieves demanded tens of millions of euros as French police arrested five more suspects, but the jewels are still missing”

(Ynet is is the online outlet for the '''Yedioth Ahronot'' Israeli' newspaper.)

So I think it is reliable. But if so, do the thieves have a problem selling the stolen items given the level of noise?

Are they saying this company decided to try to negotiate for the sale of the stolen jewels on behalf of the thieves, rather than going to the police? Or bad translation maybe? Surely that would be a crime in France.

It sounds like there is hope the jewels haven’t been destroyed for parts.

 

[Dotta]

"Louvre robbery:​

Could a 50-year-old maths problem have kept the museum safe?​

While there's no doubt that modern museum security is a complex and expensive affair,
there is also an intriguing 50-year-old mathematical problem that deals with this very issue.

It asks,
what’s the minimum number of guards I'm – or equivalently 360-degree CCTV cameras –
needed in order to keep a whole museum under observation?
It is known as the museum problem, or the art gallery problem.

The solution is an elegant one.

We'll assume that all the walls of our imaginary museum are straight lines so that the floorplan is what mathematicians call a polygon,
a shape with hard edges and corners.

The cameras must be at fixed positions, but they can see in all directions.
To ensure the whole museum is covered,
we should be able to draw a straight line from any point in the floor plan to at least one of the cameras.

Take the hexagon-shaped gallery on the left of the diagram below.

No matter where you place the camera, you'll be able to see floor and walls of the entire space.

When every position can be seen from every other in this way,
we call the gallery shape a convex polygon.

The L-shaped gallery in the middle is non-convex,
which means you're limited in your camera placement,
but we can still find spots from where a single camera can see all of the gallery.

A Z-shaped gallery needs two cameras to cover it
– there are always spots that one camera alone will miss.

But,
it's worth remembering
that many traditional museums like the Louvre have mostly rectangular rooms.

Fortunately,
a variant of the art gallery problem shows that when walls meet at right angles,
we only need one camera to cover the whole room."

Louvre robbery: Could a 50-year-old maths problem have kept the museum safe?

An audacious heist at the Louvre saw thieves make off with priceless crown jewels in broad daylight – here is how a decades-old geometry problem can help museums boost their security.

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[Dotta]

"Two more charged ​

over Louvre jewellery heist.​

A 38-year-old woman
has been charged with complicity in organised theft
and criminal conspiracy with a view to committing a crime.

Separately,
a man, aged 37,
was charged with theft and criminal conspiracy.

Both denied any involvement.

Two men who had previously been arrested were already charged with theft and criminal conspiracy
after officials said they had 'partially recognised' their involvement in the heist."

Two more charged over Louvre jewellery heist

A 38-year-old woman and a man, 37, appeared before a French magistrate over the museum theft that shocked the world.

www.bbc.com

 

[Dotta]

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[Charlot123]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1986275193925292058

OMG...
Would he be loitering near Monmartre in 2012 and speaking very decent English, btw? My guys were walking far ahead of me, and these two men hit on me, until now I don't know what they wanted. "Madame, madame". I stopped and said, "you are two huge strong men. Instead of spending time on nonsense, you could unload a fruit wagon". They said that 10 euros per hour, the cost of hard labor, would not be enough for them. I answered, "yeah, but loitering here for hours doing nothing is no better". In fact, we had a friendly conversation but I remember there were two.

Are his TikToks in English? That duo had a nice sense of humor.

In short, they were walking around Notre Dame, such places. They'd know what Louvre is. But if they were used to hang around the area, one day, if the money is right, they’d get into its window, why not?

 

[sds71]

In a story of theft and security lapses, "Fedora Man" is a gentler counterpoint — a teenager who believes art, style and a good mystery belong to ordinary life. One photo turned him into a symbol. Meeting him confirms he is, reassuringly, real.

Louvre heist: 'Fedora man' in viral picture revealed as local teenager

The mystery youth in the photo turns out to be Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux, a 15-year-old detective fan.

www.bbc.com

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/09/nx-s1-5603370/louvre-heist-picture-teen-interview

 

[LittleSeaTree]

In a story of theft and security lapses, "Fedora Man" is a gentler counterpoint — a teenager who believes art, style and a good mystery belong to ordinary life. One photo turned him into a symbol. Meeting him confirms he is, reassuringly, real.

Louvre heist: 'Fedora man' in viral picture revealed as local teenager

The mystery youth in the photo turns out to be Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux, a 15-year-old detective fan.

www.bbc.com

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/09/nx-s1-5603370/louvre-heist-picture-teen-interview

Love this….perfect layer of levity, imo

 

[Charlot123]

In a story of theft and security lapses, "Fedora Man" is a gentler counterpoint — a teenager who believes art, style and a good mystery belong to ordinary life. One photo turned him into a symbol. Meeting him confirms he is, reassuringly, real.

Louvre heist: 'Fedora man' in viral picture revealed as local teenager

The mystery youth in the photo turns out to be Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux, a 15-year-old detective fan.

www.bbc.com

https://www.npr.org/2025/11/09/nx-s1-5603370/louvre-heist-picture-teen-interview

He is a curious mix of Alain Delon and Humphrey Bogart. Very theatrical. Whatever the goal, it is nice to show respect to timeless art.

 

[Dotta]

"In a Franceinfo radio interview at the beginning of November,
Paris public prosecutor Laure Beccuau said
that four arrests were made in connection with the robbery,
and 'at least one person' remains at large.

Beccuau said
the suspects in custody appear not to be associated with organized crime,
as the first two suspects arrested were
a taxi driver, 39,
and a delivery man and garbage collector, 34,
from the northern Parisian suburbs.

The other two charged suspects
are a man, 37,
and his domestic partner, 38, also from the northern regions of Paris.
The woman, 38, was released from custody on Wednesday.

The stolen crown jewels remain missing."

Louvre jewel heist: Man who says he is a cousin of one suspect speaks out, as 4 arrested for robbery

As the investigation into the Louvre heist continues, four suspects have been charged. Now, a cousin of one of the suspects is speaking out.

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