7 suspects arrested in Louvre heist
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Louvre Museum in Paris, a prosecutor says there's no sign of the missing jewels, and still only 2 people in custody.
Oakland Museum of California. The theft was not publicized until Wednesday, when the Oakland Police Department posted on social media that the perpetrators had taken jewelry, laptops and various historical artifacts.
Days after thieves took just minutes to steal eight pieces of the French crown jewels from the Louvre, a former bank robber says he warned a museum official of glaring weaknesses — including jewel cases by streetside windows that were “a piece of cake” to attack.
A "chronic, structural underestimation of the risk of intrusions and theft" left the Louvre exposed for over 20 years to the kind of heist the museum experienced this month, French culture minister Rachida Dati said on Friday.
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French Minister Vows Louvre Anti-Intrusion Devices After Post-Heist Report Finds Security Lapses
France's culture minister says that the Louvre will install streetside anti-ramming and anti-intrusion devices in the next two months
Jesse Eisenberg recently shared some praise for the Louvre heist thieves, saying they did a “good job.” The actor recently made an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to promote his upcoming film,
The cinematic quality of the recent Louvre art heist in Paris generated international attention. Find out which local museums appear in a new U.S. study, "Top 10 Museums Most Vulnerable to a Heist."