On Oct. 19 local time, a robbery occurred at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France. Several masked suspects broke into the Louvre through a construction area along the Seine River, used a freight elevator to access the Apollo Gallery exhibition area, smashed display cases, and stole multiple artifacts.
This marks the third museum theft in France within the past two months. On Sept. 17, the Paris National Museum of Natural History was robbed, with displayed natural gold nugget specimens worth approximately US$700,000 stolen. Earlier, on Sept. 4, a museum in Limoges, southwestern France, reported a theft of three Chinese porcelain pieces.
French Minister of Justice Gérald Darmanin stated in an interview that security vulnerabilities at the Louvre allowed the robbers to exploit weaknesses, negatively impacting France's image.
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