Louvre Heist: What Art Crime Experts Are Saying

As you may have heard, a crew of four thieves hit the world-famous Louvre Museum in Paris on Sunday , boosting eight pieces of priceless Napoleonic jewelry from the museum’s Apollo gallery in a daring daylight raid. Posing as balaclava-masked construction workers, the thieves struck soon after the museum opened, using a basket-lift vehicle to break through a balcony window on the back side of the museum. Once inside, they used battery-powered disc cutters to gain access to two display cases and grab some of the French crown jewels inside. Then they escaped on scooters and are still at large. The heist, which took less than eight minutes, quickly became a huge global news story and has already been hyped as the crime of the century. That seems like an exaggeration. Here’s a look at some