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WRAP: Louvre robbery sparks outrage, security scramble and closures

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SHOWS: The Louvre Museum remained closed on Monday (October 20), opening nearly an hour late only to announce an exceptional closure following a dramatic jewellery heist the day before. (5136-FRANCE-CRIME/LOUVRE-REOPENING-VISITORS)

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1. EMPTY LOUVRE PYRAMID ESPLANADE AFTER CLOSURE WAS ANNOUNCED

2. LOUVRE STAFF BRINGING POSTER INFORMING OF MUSEUM CLOSURE

3. CLOSED ENTRANCE TO LOUVRE (MUTE)

4. VARIOUS OF LOUVRE VISITORS EVACUATING LOUVRE ESPLANADE

5. POSTER READING (French and English): "Monday 20 October 2025, The Louvre Museum will be closed today for exceptional reasons. All reservations for today's date will be reimbursed. Thank you for your understanding."

6. (SOUNDBITE) (French) FRENCH TOURIST FROM BRITTANY, EGLANTINE LEGOFF, SAYING:

"It's a shame because we would have liked to go in, but we'll try and go on Wednesday, but we're not sure we'll be able to."

7. LOUVRE STAFF GATHERED

8. SECURITY STAFF WALKING IN ESPLANADE

9. (SOUNDBITE) (English) TOURIST FROM THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, MICHAEL DALTON, SAYING:

"I think they should have announced the closure last night rather than this morning after everybody was already in line but it's a shame."

10. LOUVRE MUSEUM EARLIER IN THE MORNING AS TOURISTS HAD STARTED TO QUEUE

11. TOURISTS QUEUING OUTSIDE LOUVRE

12. (SOUNDBITE) (English) TOURIST FROM CINCINNATI, MARYANNE DAY, SAYING:

"I was just shocked (at the heist), it feels like a museum like this would have the security that would stop something like that."

13. SECURITY CAMERA

14. SECURITY STAFF WITH WORKING DOG

15. (SOUNDBITE) (English) TOURIST FROM AUSTRALIA, JERRY ROWAN, SAYING:

"Oh, clever, to use a cherry picker and a glass cutter, to steal priceless, well, sentimentally priceless jewels from the Louvre. The fact that it was done in daylight is also astounding, but if you look like you belong, you belong, and so I guess they used that rule."

16. LOUVRE MUSEUM

A large jewel-encrusted brooch and a tiara adorned with pearls both worn by French Empress Eugenie were among the items stolen by thieves during a heist at Paris' Louvre Museum on Sunday (October 19).

Sapphire jewellery from Queen Marie-Amelie and Queen Hortense's set, emerald pieces from Empress Marie-Louise's collection and the reliquary brooch were also taken from the museum's Apollo Gallery. (5159-FRANCE-CRIME/LOUVRE-JEWELS)

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17. DISPLAY CASES IN GALLERY

18. VARIOUS OF JEWEL-ENCRUSTED BROOCH WORN BY EMPRESS EUGENIE, WHICH WAS STOLEN FROM LOUVRE MUSEUM, ON DISPLAY AT APOLLO GALLERY

19. TIARA WORN BY EMPRESS EUGENIE, WHICH WAS STOLEN, ON DISPLAY

20. GALLERY

The Louvre heist in which thieves stole priceless objects from an area that houses the French crown jewels is a 'wake up call' to museums around the world, an art recovery expert told Reuters on Monday. (5209-FRANCE-CRIME/LOUVRE-RECOVERY EXPERT)

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21. (SOUNDBITE) (English) FOUNDER OF ART RECOVERY INTERNATIONAL, CHRISTOPHER MARINELLO, SAYING:

"Right now it's a race between the police and their investigators. And I think there's about 60 or so odd working on this and the criminals who are trying to hide the evidence of their crime, so they realize or probably plan this out, that there's no way they can just submit these things to Sotheby's or Christie's and they need to break them up. And what they're going to do to hide them is open up the jewels and take out the diamonds on the sapphires and the emeralds and take them over to a place where they can have them recut in Antwerp or in Tel Aviv and find a jeweller that won't ask any questions. And once they're been cut into smaller jewels, the deed is done. It's over. We'll never see these pieces again intact."

22. WHITE FLASH

23. (SOUNDBITE) (English) FOUNDER OF ART RECOVERY INTERNATIONAL, CHRISTOPHER MARINELLO, SAYING:

"And now you have a major hit from a major museum. And it's just it's appalling. It's a slap in the face of museums everywhere. And it's a wake-up call. If you have jewels or you have gold in your collections, you need to be worried."

French newspapers reported on the robbery of Paris’ Louvre Museum on Monday (October 20) morning, with one calling it the “heist of the century.” (5128-FRANCE-CRIME/LOUVRE-NEWSPAPERS)

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24. FRENCH NEWSPAPERS WITH FRONT PAGE HEADLINES ON LOUVRE ROBBERY

25. VARIOUS OF FRONT PAGE OF “LE PARISIEN” NEWSPAPER READING (French): “The Louvre robbed in daylight – The heist of the century”

26. VARIOUS OF FRONT PAGE OF “LES ECHOS” NEWSPAPER READING (French): “Priceless jewels stolen from the Louvre”

27. VARIOUS OF “LIBERATION” NEWSPAPER FRONT PAGE WITH HEADLINE READING (French): “Louvre robbery – Seven minutes for eight jewels”

28. VARIOUS OF “LE FIGARO” NEWSPAPER READING (French): “The Louvre Museum target of an incredible robbery of jewels”

"What is certain is that we failed," Justice Minister Gerard Darmanin said on Monday as opposition politicians criticised the government for what they branded a national humiliation. (5191-FRANCE-CRIME/LOUVRE-DARMANIN)

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29. (SOUNDBITE) (French) FRENCH JUSTICE MINISTER, GERALD DARMANIN, SAYING:

"I think the French people this morning all - or a large majority of them - feel like they have been robbed. In the same way as when Notre Dame was burning, it was our church that was burning even when we weren't Catholic, having such important jewellery stolen in such an incredible way, it of course looks bad, and it also gives a very negative image of France."

30. WHITE FLASH

31. (SOUNDBITE) (French) FRENCH JUSTICE MINISTER, GERALD DARMANIN, SAYING:

"There are many museums in Paris, many museums in France, with priceless values in these museums. The fact that these display cases were not secured, it's a question that we can ask. That there was a crane truck in public, it's a question that can be asked. Having served as interior minister, I know that we cannot secure totally all the sites. But what was sure was that we failed, because someone was capable of putting in a crane truck wide in the open in the streets of Paris, to have people walk up for a couple of minutes and take priceless jewels and give France a deplorable image."

Tourists gathered across from the window where thieves broke into the world-famous Louvre museum to get a look at the damage and snap a photo on Monday. (5221-FRANCE-CRIME/LOUVRE-TOURISTS)

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32. SITE WHERE THIEVES ENTERED LOUVRE WITH BROKEN WINDOW

33. LETTERING ON FACADE READING (French): “LOUVRE MUSEUM, GALLERY OF ANTIQUITIES”

34. VARIOUS OF TOURIST TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS

35. (SOUNDBITE) (English) BRITISH TOURIST, SCOUT PONSFORD, SAYING:

“We came to do some shopping and then we figured ‘why don’t we just go and see, like what happened’, because we found out yesterday when it happened that people broke into the Louvre and we were just intrigued by what it was.”

36. PEOPLE TAKING PHOTOS ON THEIR PHONES OF SITE OF BREAK-IN

37. (SOUNDBITE) (French) ONLOOKER FROM BRAZIL, DANIELA FERNANDES DA COSTA, SAYING:

“I would like to understand for myself how it was done, how they were able to actually put a small van in, a freight elevator, and climb up. Well, it all happened very quickly, of course, but I wanted to see (the site) with my own eyes.”

38. VARIOUS OF ONLOOKER FROM BRAZIL, DANIELA FERNANDES DA COSTA, TAKING PHOTO OF WINDOW ON HER PHONE

39. VARIOUS OF TOURISTS FROM SRI LANKA TAKING PHOTO IN FRONT OF SITE OF BREAK IN

40. POLICE ON GUARD OUTSIDE BUILDING

An art crime investigator said on Monday the Louvre Museum robbery exposed vulnerabilities in security and that museums around the world would fear copycat thefts, as a manhunt continued for the four people who staged the audacious daylight robbery at the museum. (5206-FRANCE-CRIME/LOUVRE-ART-INVESTIGATOR)

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41. (SOUNDBITE) (English) DUTCH ART CRIME INVESTIGATOR, ARTHUR BRAND, SAYING:

“It's a crazy story, you know. We could say this is the heist of the decade. If you target the Louvre, the most important museum in the world and then get away with the French crown jewels, something was wrong with security. “

42. WHITE FLASH

43. (SOUNDBITE) (English) DUTCH ART CRIME INVESTIGATOR, ARTHUR BRAND, SAYING:

“Some people think that these thefts are being commissioned by a private collector who wants to have these pieces in his own collection, but that's unheard of. You only see it in Hollywood movies. Nobody wants to touch a piece so hot, you know, you cannot show it to your friends, you cannot leave it to your children.”

44. WHITE FLASH

45. (SOUNDBITE) (English) DUTCH ART CRIME INVESTIGATOR, ARTHUR BRAND, SAYING:

“You can imagine that other museums in the world and there are tens of thousands of them, smaller than the Louvre, they are watching this news and they think, well, if the Louvre can be robbed, how can we protect ourselves? And they are afraid that local thieves will think, well you know, they took it off with the Louvre. Let's try our local museum. So that's the biggest fear now in the museum world.”