Hello and welcome to just Melissa.

On this episode, I'm going to be talking about the Louvre Jewelry Heist.

Paris, city of light, love, and apparently larceny. Because on a quiet Sunday morning, on

October 19th, 2025, the world's most famous museum, the Louvre, became the stage for one of the boldest

jewelry heist in modern history. It happened fast, precise, almost cinematic.

And when it was over, centuries of French royal history had vanished into thin air.

The Louvre is no stranger to drama. It survived revolutions, wars, and the occasional art theft

headline, like the time the Mona Lisa herself was stolen in 1911. But this, this was something

different. It wasn't a late night job. It wasn't inside the shadows of closing hours.

This was a broad daylight robbery, carried out just 30 minutes after the museum opened its doors.

It's 9.30 a.m. in Paris. Families are lining up to see Da Vinci's famous smile. Tour groups are filtering through

the marble halls and outside on the museum's river-facing facade, a truck with a mechanical lift

pulls quietly to a stop. Witnesses would later tell investigators it looked like ordinary maintenance work,

maybe window cleaning, nothing suspicious. But inside that truck, tools, cutters, and a plan that had

been in motion for weeks. The thieves extended the hydraulic lift toward a second floor

window of the Louvre's Gallery de Polan, an ornate corridor lined with chandeliers, gold molding,

and cases containing the French crown jewels. Using disc cutters, the kind used for industrial steel,

they sliced through the window glass. The sound barely registered in the hum of tourist chatter below.

Once inside, the crew smashed through two high security display cases. They knew exactly which ones. No fumbling,

no hesitation. Security analysts later said the operation lasted between four and seven minutes. And then

they were gone. They climbed back out the same window, hopped on motor scooters, and sped away into the Paris streets.

By the time security guards reached the gallery, the cases were empty, shards of glass glinting on the floor where royal jewels had once sparkled. The damage wasn't just

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