Louvre, French and Thieves
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The Paris prosecutor said multiple suspects were arrested on Saturday evening, and hit out at leaks to the media..
Thieves broke into the museum's Galerie d'Apollon and made off with "priceless" jewelry, French interior minister Laurent Nuñez said.
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How thieves robbed the Louvre in just 7 minutes: A minute-by-minute breakdown of the daring heist
Seven minutes is all it took for thieves to rob the world’s most famous museum Sunday. Here's a minute-by-minute breakdown of how it went down.
The Louvre has transferred some of its most precious jewels to the Bank of France after an audacious daylight heist last week exposed the famed museum's security vulnerability.
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Louvre thieves left 150 clues in daring break-in, investigators say
French prosecutors are hopeful about catching the thieves behind last weekend's spectacular break-in at the Louvre museum in Paris, after investigators recovered more than 150 DNA samples, fingerprints and other clues at the scene of the heist.
A week after thieves stormed the Louvre and ripped eight priceless pieces from France’s Crown Jewels, the country is nursing a deep cultural wound
Authorities were racing Monday to reassure the public about security at key cultural sites — and find the jewels stolen from the museum before they can be broken up and melted down.