The world-famous museum in Paris is still closed on Monday after a masked gang raided one of its galleries.

A nice feel good comedy-crime-caper-film-plot news story for you all!

Breaking into the Louvre using a vehicle-mounted mechanical lift and cutting through a glass window? Excellent hijinks. Stealing the Fr*nch Crown Jewels? Cartoon villain material. Geting away by scooter? Of course you are.

10 / 10 would read again.

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  • DerRedMax [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Crowns and diadems can easily be broken apart and sold in small parts.

    The thieves “are not going to keep them intact, they are going to break them up, melt down the valuable metal, recut the valuable stones and hide evidence of their crime,” Marinello said.

    It would be difficult to sell these jewels intact, he said.