17 h. ago Louvre thieves caught on camera making slow getaway with French crown jewels

The two Louvre thieves gingerly make their way down a cherry picker during their slow-motion getaway in the incredible new footage from the £76 million heist at the central Paris museum

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18 h. ago Astonishing new video shows Louvre robbers escaping in a mechanical delivery basket with £76m

This is the moment the brazen robbers who stole priceless jewellery worth an estimated £76million from the Louvre escaped down a ladder before fleeing on scooters. 

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18 h. ago Brazen Louvre thieves caught on camera slowly escaping with crown jewels from £76m heist

A new video has emerged from the day of the Louvre heist, where thieves managed to steal £76million worth of stolen jewels from the country's most popular museum

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18 h. ago Astonishing new video shows Louvre robbers calmly escaping in a mechanical delivery basket before fleeing with £76m

This is the moment the brazen robbers who stole priceless jewellery from the Louvre escaped down a ladder before fleeing on scooters. 

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19 h. ago Louvre robbery: Director admits 'failure' as only gallery camera faced wrong way

Laurence des Cars has offered to resign as the director of the Louvre, accepting the daylight raid - in which jewels worth an estimated £76m were stolen - was a 'terrible failure'

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35 h. ago Louvre issues 'terrible' update after brazen £76m jewellery raid

Detectives are continuing to investigate the audacious heist

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37 h. ago ‘Just extraordinary’: Louvre broken window now on tourist trail as museum reopens after jewel heist

Apollo gallery remains closed as police investigate €88m robbery and director faces questioning over securityIt is already, in a small way, Paris’s newest tourist attraction. “And on our right,” boomed the guide on the bateau mouche tour boat heading up the Seine, “the Louvre – and the window thieves smashed to steal France’s crown jewels.”The world’s most visited museum reopened on Wednesday for the first time since a gang of four men broke into its Apollo gallery on Sunday, making off with €88m (£76m) of Napoleonic jewellery in France’s most dramatic heist in decades. Continue reading...

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60 h. ago France’s Culture Minister gives fresh update on brazen Louvre heist

France's Culture Minister has responded to criticism of the Louvre's security after the dramatic heist

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3 d. ago Louvre jewellery recovery unlikely even if police catch robbers behind brazen museum heist

At least four French museums have been robbed in the last two months

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3 d. ago Gone in 4 minutes: Dramatic moment Louvre thief breaks into display case during brazen heist in Paris

The thieves targeted the Apollon gallery and were able to flee on motorbikes with priceless jewels within minutes

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4 d. ago Brazen thieves drop priceless Eugénie crown outside the Louvre in Paris during jaw

The group of criminals swiped priceless items, including a necklace and a brooch, once belonging to Napoleon Bonaparte and his wife Josephine in broad daylight, forcing the attraction to shut its doors.

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9 d. ago Brazen thieves caught 'nicking tumble dryer' from Edinburgh home on CCTV

The owner of the tumble dryer claims two men walked onto the bottom of the drive and "helped themselves" to the appliance.

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3 w. ago America's stupidest thieves caught posing in jewels they'd just stolen from Russian doctor's luxury Miami apartment

The trio were spotted on several surveillance cameras wearing their $60,000 haul as they left the Paramount Miami Worldcenter in the city's ritzy downtown last month.

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3 w. ago Brazen supermarket thieves caught on camera loading bottles of alcohol into Deliveroo bag

Shameless thieves have been caught stuffing bottles of alcohol from Waitrose into Deliveroo bags - as staff say they are helpless to stop them.

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