THE LOUVRE MUSEUM ROBBERY, PARIS (OCTOBER 2025)**
The Louvre Museum robbery of 19 October 2025 is one of the most audacious cultural thefts in modern European history. A highly organised group of four thieves, disguised as construction workers, infiltrated the Galerie d’Apollon—home to France’s Crown Jewels—at 9:30 a.m., just minutes after the museum opened to the public. Using a monte-meuble hoist from the Seine-side façade, the thieves accessed a first-floor balcony, cut through a glass w
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