Footage showing two men appears to have been filmed from nearby window in museum
The slow-motion getaway of two thieves from the Louvre clutching €88m (£76m) of France’s crown jewels was captured on video, it has emerged – the latest dramatic twist to the country’s most spectacular heist in decades.
The 36-second clip, which Le Parisien newspaper said it had verified, shows two men dressed in black, one wearing a yellow hi-vis vest and the other a motorcycle helmet, slowly descending on a furniture lift from the museum’s Apollo gallery.
It appears to have been filmed from a nearby window in the museum, looking on to the Quai François Mitterrand where the thieves had earlier parked a stolen truck with a 30-metre (90ft) extendable ladder and basket lift that they used to access the first-floor gallery.
“The individuals are on scooters,” a voice – possibly that of a security guard – is heard to say, apparently into a walkie-talkie. “They are going to leave, they are going to leave.” Seconds later, the men can be seen heading off on two scooters.
