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2025 Louvre heist - Wikipedia
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"The robbery occurred at about 9:30 am CEST, 30 minutes after the museum opened to visitors. The thieves arrived at the building and entered from the side of the Seine river, bringing tools. They wore yellow and orange vests to disguise themselves as construction workers. Two members, with their faces concealed with balaclavas, gained entry to a first-storey balcony of the building's south side using a basket lift (monte-meuble), a vehicle-mounted electric hoist commonly used in Paris to move furniture in or out of a building via an upper-storey window.
Once they gained access using the hoist's platform, they used a disc cutter to cut through a glass window to access the Galerie d'Apollon, triggering security alarms. After threatening the guards with their power tools, the thieves took nine pieces from two glass display cases, then left the museum by descending the hoist's ladder to two other members of the crew, who were waiting on motor scooters. During their exit, they dropped the Crown of Empress Eugénie in the street, reducing their haul to eight items. They attempted to set fire to the basket of the vehicle-mounted lift before fleeing, but a museum staffer prevented them from doing so. The thieves fled along the banks of the Seine to the Boulevard Périphérique and then took the A6 autoroute southwards. The entire robbery took just under eight minutes of which the thieves spent four in the building after cutting the window."