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French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez revealed on Sunday that the jewelry stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris is "priceless," describing what happened as a "major robbery."
The French minister explained that the thieves used a crane on the back of a truck to enter the "Apollo Hall," where they focused on stealing "two display cabinets," and the operation took only about 7 minutes to complete. Nuñez confirmed that there were no injuries, noting the need to evacuate visitors to preserve evidence and ensure that the investigation proceeded calmly. Weak protection and the search for the perpetrators. The minister acknowledged the existence of a "significant weakness in French museums," noting that the authorities are making efforts to reach the perpetrators as soon as possible, and added: "It is not unlikely that the perpetrators are foreigners." Following the incident, the Paris public prosecutor's office opened an investigation into "organized theft and criminal conspiracy," and assigned the investigation to the anti-theft squad of the judicial police. Museum closure and the impact of the theft Traffic around the Louvre pyramid stopped, and the gates on the banks of the Seine were closed, according to press reports. The museum also announced on its website the closure of its doors this Sunday "for exceptional reasons." The reports clarified that the thieves targeted display cases of Napoleon's jewelry and some French kings before fleeing, which sparked a state of shock in France and the world.
