Louvre thieves filmed escaping in very slow motion after whirlwind Crown Jewels robbery

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A gang of thieves who stole priceless jewelery from the Louvre have been captured on camera fleeing the world famous temple in painfully slow motion. archive In the new footage.

The group climbed the iconic Paris museum using an extendable ladder on a lorry broke windows with small chains In an audacious seven-minute robbery at 9.30 am on Sunday morning.

A new clip posted online shows two masked men, one wearing a high-vis jacket and the other a motorbike jacket, sliding down the glass museum in slow motion using a 90-foot-tall basket lift mounted on a truck. The couple later fled the scene on motorcycles.

Police officers work in the basket lift used by thieves at the Louvre Museum in Paris

Police officers work in the basket lift used by thieves at the Louvre Museum in Paris ,AP (AP Photo/Thibault Camus),

On Wednesday it emerged that the truck had been stolen from a car rental firm nine days before the theft WireNo arrests have been made.

In the operation a gang of thieves entered the Galerie d’Apollon and stole eight pieces of jewelery worth £76 million.

Missing artifacts include:

  • A tiara, necklace and an earring from the set of Queen Marie-Amélie and Queen Hortense
  • An emerald necklace and a pair of emerald earrings from the Queen Marie Louise set
  • A brooch known as a “relic brooch”
  • A tiara belonging to Empress Eugenie
  • A large corsage bow brooch of Empress Eugenie
Queen Marie-Louise's necklace and earrings were among the jewels stolen.

Queen Marie-Louise’s necklace and earrings were among the jewels stolen. ,AFP via Getty Images,

The group also reportedly dropped the crown of Empress Eugénie (Napoleon III’s wife) on the sidewalk, causing it to break.

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all items They are missing, with fears that they have been sold on the black market for parts.

According to the museum’s director of public reception and surveillance, security guards chased the thieves and were successful in preventing them from setting the furniture lift truck on fire.

A spokesman for the vehicle rental service said the vehicle on the lift had been stolen in the nearby town of Louvres a few days before the robbery.Wire.

The Mitsubishi Canter Fuso, equipped with a 90-foot ladder, was delivered to a rental driver in the city of Val-d’Oise on October 10.

Members of the forensic team inspect the window believed to have been used in the Louvre robbery

Members of the forensic team inspect the window believed to have been used in the Louvre robbery ,Reuters/Gonzalo Fuentes,

But the rental company said the handover of the vehicle was disrupted when two men arrived on a motorcycle and threatened the driver.

One of the men got into a truck while the other fled on a motorcycle, but no weapons were used and no attack took place. Wire. Speaking anonymously to the newspaper, the owner of the rental firm said he did not realize the vehicle was stolen until he saw the robbery on the news and informed the police.

The vehicle was painted brown to hide the logo and the number plate was cloned from a 2018 model of Isuzu Series N registered in the Paris area a few days before the robbery.

Investigators are examining clues that the thieves left behind, including a petrol container, scooter helmet, blowtorch, walkie-talkie, yellow vest and a blanket.

Louvre president Laurence des Cars said at a French Senate culture committee hearing on Wednesday that the museum had been “defeated.”

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“We are experiencing a terrible failure at the Louvre, for which I take responsibility,” she said.

He admitted that CCTV footage of the surrounding area was “highly inadequate”.

The Louvre reopened to the public on Wednesday with an increased security presence.

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