It took four thieves just seven minutes to break into the famed Louvre Museum in Paris and steal eight pieces of jewelry worth millions in broad daylight at 9:30 a.m. Sunday. It’s one of the most shocking museum thefts in history.
French authorities are still searching for the robbers and the missing items. Officials have acknowledged that lapses in security helped enable the daring theft, which took place with visitors inside 30 minutes after the museum opened.
"These days a Cartier store is better protected" than the Louvre, according to a jewelry expert quoted by the Guardian.
The robbers used simple cutting tools and a truck-mounted powered ladder to gain access to a second-floor window of the Louvre. They were inside the museum for less than four minutes, officials said.
Four men drove a truck with a powered extendable ladder and stopped on a road near the Seine River on the Louvre’s south side. They extended the ladder to a second-floor balcony of the museum.
