“There are no injured people to regret”, guarantees the minister. Louvre closed this Sunday due to robbery in the morning. Thieves escaped on scooter.
This Sunday morning, the Louvre museum in France suffered a robbery, when it was already open to the public. The news was announced by French Minister of Culture Rachida Dati.
Three masked men broke into the Louvre Museum shortly after opening this morning.
The minister is still at the X, which is “on site alongside the museum and police teams” and that an “investigation” is underway. He assures, however, that “there are no injured people to regret”. The museum will be closed for “exceptional reasons” today, the minister informed journalists.
The Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office confirmed that it had opened an investigation into an alleged “organized robbery and criminal conspiracy to commit a crime”.
It further confirms that there was a “jewelry robbery” at the Louvre and that the investigation has the support of a service specialized in combating illegal trafficking in cultural goods.
The robbers reportedly used a freight elevator to access the Apolo Gallery, located on the Seine River, which is the room where what remains of the French crown jewels are kept.
The thieves may have been armed with small chainsaws. They fled on a scooter with nine pieces of jewelry that, according to , they would be part of Napoleon’s collection.
