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There are nine pieces of jewelery from the collections of Napoleon and the Empress stolen from the louvre,
The thieves on Sunday morning reportedly used a basket lift to reach the museum, which is the most visited museum in the world.
The robbery occurred while tourists were inside the Galerie d’Apollon, where part of the French Crown Jewels is displayed.
The museum closed for the day after police sealed the gate and conducted an investigation.
According to French Culture Minister Rachida Daati, a piece of the jewelery was found after the thieves fled. Multiple French media outlets are reporting that the item is a 19th-century tiara belonging to Empress Eugenie – wife of Napoleon III – and has been found broken.
Here’s a look at some other famous robberies around the world.
Louvre is missing mona lisa Helped cement the picture’s fame
The Louvre has a long history of thefts and attempted robberies. The most famous came in 1911, when the Mona Lisa disappeared from its frame, stolen by Vincenzo Perugia, a former employee who hid inside the museum and walked out with the painting under his coat.
It was recovered in Florence two years later – an episode that helped make Leonardo da Vinci’s portrait the world’s most famous artwork.
Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum robbery remains unsolved
It has been called the largest art heist in American history, but 35 years later the theft of 13 artworks from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum remains unsolved.
In the early hours of March 18, 1990, two men disguised as Boston police officers entered the museum, saying they were responding to a call. They overpowered two security guards, bound them with duct tape and spent 81 minutes stealing 13 works of art, including masterpieces by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Degas and Manet.
Officials say the artwork may be worth as much as half a billion dollars. Museum officials say it is priceless because it cannot be replaced.
Some works including Rembrandt Storm on the Sea of Galilee, Were cut from their frames. Those frames are still hanging empty in the museum.
Two German museum thieves stole a solid gold coin and royal jewels
In 2017, thieves in Berlin’s Bode Museum stole a 100-kilogram (220 lb) Canadian solid-gold coin, known as the “Big Maple Leaf”.
It is believed that the suspects broke a protective case and then managed to pick up the coin from the museum window before fleeing along the rail tracks with it in a wheelbarrow. After escaping with it, authorities believe he later cut up the coin, valued at about €3.75 million ($4.33 million), and sold the pieces.
Three people, including a museum security guard, were later convicted.
Two years later, thieves broke into the vitrines in the Green Vault of Dresden, one of the world’s oldest museums, and made off with millions of euros worth of diamond-encrusted royal jewels.
Authorities said they walked away with three “priceless” sets of 18th-century jewelery that would be impossible to sell on the open market.
Some part of the goods was later recovered. Five people were convicted and the sixth was acquitted.
The plumbing of the golden toilet of an English palace was damaged
a thief who A golden toilet snatched from an English castle He was convicted earlier this year along with an accomplice who helped cash in on the robbery of an 18-carat artwork insured for nearly £5 million (more than US$6 million).
Michael Jones used a fully functioning toilet of sorts while on reconnaissance Blenheim Palace – Country mansion where wartime leaders were Winston Churchill was born the day before the theft, prosecutors said. He described the experience as “fantastic”.
He returned before dawn on 14 September 2019, armed with a sledgehammer and crowbar, along with at least two other men. They broke a window and cleared toilet plumbing within five minutes, allowing them to escape in stolen vehicles and a devastating flood before them.
A satirical work titled America By Italian conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan, poking fun at excessive wealth. It weighed a little more than 215 pounds (98 kg). The gold was worth £2.8 million ($3.6 million) at the time. The looted pot was never recovered but is believed to have been cut up and sold.
The piece was previously displayed at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. The museum offered this work to the US President donald trump During his first term in office he asked to borrow a Van Gogh painting.