New footage emerges of the moment the Louvre thieves make off with the stolen jewels (VIDEO)

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New footage emerges of the moment the Louvre thieves make off with the stolen

New footage released online shows the moment a gang of thieves fled the Louvre Museum via a truck-mounted elevator after stealing eight precious objects from France's royal treasury.

In the video, two people, one wearing a reflective vest and the other a motorcycle helmet, are seen as the elevator slowly descends from the museum's first-floor balcony, which they had used to enter the gallery. Once they reached the sidewalk, their view was blocked by a wooden fence. They then fled on electric scooters towards eastern Paris.

The robbery took just seven minutes, but the damage it caused has been described as comparable to the tragedy of the burning of Notre-Dame Cathedral in 2019. The truck, a 27-meter Mitsubishi Canter Fuso, was stolen in the city of Louvres, two miles from Charles de Gaulle airport. Before the robbery, the perpetrators had painted the vehicle gray and changed the license plates to hide its origin.

After carrying out the robbery in broad daylight on Sunday, the thieves attempted to set the truck on fire, but the intervention of security guards forced them to flee in a hurry. “The guards immediately came out and made them flee. Thanks to them, a major fire was avoided,” the head of the Louvre’s security service said in a recording obtained by BFMTV.

Investigations have revealed that the stolen ornaments were stored in a modern reinforced glass display case, which offered less protection than the previous historic structure replaced in 2019.

The director of the Louvre, Laurence des Cars, is understood to have offered her resignation to President Emmanuel Macron, but he rejected it. In a hearing in the French Senate, she admitted that the museum's external camera system is "obsolete" and called for the establishment of a police station inside the building.

In total, jewelry worth around 88 million euros was stolen, including a pendant that Napoleon Bonaparte had given to Marie-Louise of Austria, as well as a crown, a pendant and a pair of earrings belonging to Queen Hortense, along with some jewels belonging to Empress Eugénie, the wife of Napoleon III.

The daring robbery, carried out in broad daylight and recorded by cameras, has once again raised major questions about the security of one of the world's most famous cultural institutions. 



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