Smash and Grab - The Louvre Heist

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🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

In a bold daylight raid on Sunday, October 19, 2025, thieves breached the Louvre Museum in Paris, stealing priceless French crown jewels from the Galerie d’Apollon. This episode details the audacious heist where intruders, disguised with construction gear, used a basket lift platform to break a window on the Seine-facing façade. The entire operation—smashing display cases and loading up necklaces, crowns, and tiaras—took only four to seven minutes before the thieves fled on motorbikes.

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0:00.0	Stoveleg Media, Igniting Conversation.
0:12.4	Welcome to True Crime to Go. What can I get for you?
0:16.0	Yeah, I see your menu and your prices are fine, but I really am looking for something literally priceless,
0:22.1	maybe in the loop, and we can steal it.
0:24.6	Pull up to the second window and we'll see you next crime.
0:31.0	Welcome to True Crime to Go.
0:33.2	I am John.
0:34.0	Here is always with Jamie.
0:36.3	You're like my best friend and also the guy that I know
0:39.7	who likes heists more than anybody else on this planet. How you doing, man? I'm good and I love a
0:44.8	good highest. Part of that is because they're so interesting to me. They make fantastic movies,
0:49.2	but also most of the time, nobody dies. I was a, I don't know what I was doing the day that I saw this article
0:56.8	come out and I immediately thought I'm sure Jamie already knows about this one and after I thought
1:02.6	about you I immediately thought of oceans 11 maybe the best highest movie of all time in my opinion I
1:08.0	mean is this oceans 14 I don't Dude, this is a good one. So
1:12.8	why don't you get the ball rolling? Yeah. So we are literally recording this the day it happened.
1:16.9	Earlier today on Sunday, October 19th, 2025, we're heading to the Louvre, which is a former
1:23.4	royal palace, and maybe the world's most famous museum the winged victory is there the mona lisa
1:30.1	is there there's a half a million things in this museum 35,000 of them on display millions of
1:37.9	visitors each year and it was robbed in broad daylight. It opens at nine.
1:45.4	So it opened at nine this morning.
1:47.3	Around 9.30 a.m.
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