– 9:00: The Louvre museum opens to visitors.
– 9:35: Thieves use glass cutters to break the display cases and take the jewelry. Security guards evacuate visitors. The museum manager calls the police to report a robbery in progress and asks for immediate help.
– 9:36: A team leader in the command center activates a special button linked to the Paris Police headquarters.
– 9:37: A message is sent to staff requesting that all museum doors be closed.
– 9:38: The thieves leave through the same window and flee with two other people who are waiting for them on two scooters. They leave behind a yellow jacket similar to those typically worn by construction workers and other equipment, including a glass cutter. Culture Minister Rachida Dati said security guards at the scene prevented a thief from setting fire to the truck with the loading crane.
– 10:34: Dati announces on social networks that “a robbery took place this morning at the opening of the Louvre Museum.” The loot reportedly included a sapphire tiara, a necklace and an earring from an ensemble linked to the 19th century queens Maria-Amelia and Hortensia, as well as the Empress Eugenie. Later that day: The imperial emerald crown of Napoleon III’s wife, Empress Eugenie, containing more than 1,300 diamonds, lies outside the museum, but thieves made off with eight other objects of incalculable historical value.
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