Louvre jewel heist captured on TV underscores security gaps
A newly aired surveillance video from France Televisions shows two thieves breaking into the Louvre’s Apollo Gallery through a reinforced window, using disk cutters to slice display cases and stealing nine pieces of jewelry worth about $102 million while staff did not intervene; the footage highlights security gaps cited in a recent audit (35% of the Denon Wing not monitored). Four suspects are in custody, and aside from a crown dropped during the escape, none of the jewels have been recovered.