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Part 1 - Grand Theft Museum - The Biggest Burglaries in History

Sunday morning, the Louvre lost priceless treasures in seven minutes. This isn't the first time. These are the stories that came before.

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Cool Stories About Art
Oct 20, 2025
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This Sunday, 19 October 2025, at half past nine in the morning, a four-person commando gained entry to the Louvre via a cherry picker, cut through the windows of the Galerie d’Apollon with an angle grinder, smashed two high-security display cases and made off with eight imperial jewels in precisely seven minutes.

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