THE appearances before a French Senate committee on the robbery that occurred on October 19 at the Louvre museum, located in Paris, the French capital, highlighted that the people allegedly involved had less than a minute to escape from the location of the events without being detected by the Police.
A senior official said the thieves “They managed to escape” of the scene in which they committed the crime for only 30 seconds, so the theft could not have been avoided “by the hair.”
“For very little, the security agents or the police could have foiled this theft“, specified the director of the General Inspectorate of Cultural Affairs of France, Noël Corbin, during a series of statements before the Senate cultural committee, according to information collected by the newspaper. “Le Figaro”.
Another present, Pascal Mignerey, employee at the Ministry of Culture, underlined that a camera placed next to the room in which the jewels were found “perfectly recorded the arrival of thieves, the installation of the platform, its entry onto the balcony and, a few minutes later, his departure.” “However, these recordings they were not seen in the director and when they were checked, it was too late and the thieves had abandoned the building,” he noted.
Shortly after the theft, the Ministry of Culture indicated that the jewelry came from “low value” and detailed that it was the tiara from the trousseau of Queen María Amelia and Queen Hortensia, the necklace from the sapphire trousseau of Queen María Amelia and Queen Hortensia, a pair of earrings from the sapphire trousseau of Queen María Amelia and Queen Hortensia, an emerald necklace from the trousseau of María Luisa, a pair of earrings emerald from María Luisa’s trousseau, a brooch called a reliquary brooch, from Empress Eugénie’s tiara and a large bow as a brooch on Empress Eugénie’s bodice.
To this must be added the crown of Empress Eugénie, found damaged near the Louvre museum. Despite everything, among the the stolen jewels that the famous regent was not, the largest diamond in the collection, weighing more than 140 carats.
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