{"id":7979,"date":"2025-10-28T05:03:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T05:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/28\/louvre-jewel-heist-html\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T05:03:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T05:03:49","slug":"louvre-jewel-heist-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/28\/louvre-jewel-heist-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Louvre Jewel Heist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Louvre Jewel Heist<\/div>\n

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I assume I don\u2019t have to explain last week\u2019s Louvre jewel heist<\/a>. I love a good caper, and have (like many others<\/a>) eagerly followed the details<\/a>. An electric ladder to a second-floor window, an angle grinder to get into the room and the display cases, security guards there more to protect patrons than valuables\u2014seven minutes, in and out.<\/p>\n

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The Louvre, it turns out\u2014at least certain nooks of the ancient former palace\u2014is something like an anopticon: a place where no one is observed. The world now knows what the four thieves (two burglars and two accomplices) realized as recently as last week: The museum\u2019s Apollo Gallery, which housed the stolen items, was monitored by a single outdoor camera angled away from its only exterior point of entry, a balcony. In other words, a free-roaming Roomba could have provided the world\u2019s most famous museum with more information about the interior of this space. There is no surveillance footage of the break-in.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Professional jewelry thieves were not impressed with the four. Here\u2019s Larry Lawton<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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\u201cI robbed 25, 30 jewelry stores\u201420 million, 18 million, something like that,\u201d Mr. Lawton said. \u201cDid you know that I never dropped a ring or an earring, no less, a crown worth 20 million?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He thinks that they had a compatriot on the inside.<\/p>\n

Museums, especially smaller ones, are good targets for theft because they rarely secure what they hold to its true value. They can\u2019t; it would be prohibitively expensive. This makes them an attractive target.<\/p>\n

We might find out soon. It looks like some people have been arrested<\/a><\/p>\n

Not being out of the country\u2014out of the EU\u2014by now was sloppy. Leaving DNA evidence was sloppy. I can hope the criminals were sloppy enough not to have disassembled the jewelry by now, but I doubt it. They were probably taken apart within hours of the theft.<\/p>\n

The whole thing is sad, really. Unlike stolen paintings, those jewels have no value in their original form. They need to be taken apart<\/a> and sold in pieces. But then their value drops considerably\u2014so the end result is that most of the worth of those items disappears. It would have been much better to pay the thieves not to rob the Louvre.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Louvre Jewel Heist I assume I don\u2019t have to explain last week\u2019s Louvre jewel heist. I love a good caper, and have (like many others) eagerly followed the details. An electric ladder to a second-floor window, an angle grinder to get into the room and the display cases, security guards there more to protect patrons […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,979,1054,452,1],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-7979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bruce-schneier","category-france","category-operational-security","category-theft","category-uncategorized","tag-bruce-schneier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}