It's refreshing to see criminals who stay true to their roots. It seems like every crime these days is identity-theft this, and cyber-crime that. It's nice to know that there's still room for a classic jewel heist in our modern era.
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Lmao yeah. Let's keep tradition alive
Well, there's a current, non-monarchical world leader who keeps posting AI video of himself wearing a crown, so you know... gotta procure one for free, somewhere!
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If we were in a Dan Brown novel, tomorrow an alleged descendant of Napoleon would proclaim himself the new emperor of France on the basis of an obscure law of the 2nd French Republic and lawyers would prove him right.
Obviously, this is how the 5th Republic will end.
Considering the current mess it is, it would not be that surprising.
Yeah we could do with a 6:th.
"After breaking windows, two men entered the building, while a third remained outside. The thieves stole nine pieces from Napoleon and the Empress's jewelry collection: a necklace, a brooch, a tiara, and more. They were placed in the Napoleon and French Sovereigns display cases."
Translated from French, source https://www.leparisien.fr/paris-75/le-musee-du-louvre-cible-dun-braquage-ce-dimanche-le-site-ferme-au-public-19-10-2025-DQII6PEIVVEDBM5KQMHDSCF6IM.php
Lmao the same technique a couple crackheads would use to pawn your tv. Given the nature of the heist our minds like to imagine a big conspiracy like in the movies with insider info etc, but nah just a classic smash n grab.
Yeeep. They dropped the crown on the way actually. So amateur its amazing
Authority tries to tell us action is impossible. That any infraction will be punished.
But lol, they can't stop shit.
Gonna be really funny when these amateurs are never caught
They did leave behind their jackets etc. I wouldn't be shocked if they make quick work of this case. Its too big for a couple of guys
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Holy cow! I’ve been wondering what was actually stolen. Thanks for doing what I didn’t!
Sacre bleu!
I always wondered why the blue was sacred, never realizing it was a minced oath of “sacré Dieu!” or “holy god!”
Another of my favorites is “gadzooks”
Gadzooks and “Zounds” being from the same expression, ‘God’s wounds’; in that a perfect infinite being wouldn’t get injured. So something unbelievable, something impossible.
Which was disappointing to me as reading it in comic books, I always heard it my head as “zounds” rhyming with “sounds”, but it tain’t so.
Gadzooks is supposedly “gods hooks” (nails from the crucifixion) rather than the wounds.
Hm!
dag nabbit
I always wondered why the blue was sacred
You clearly haven't tasted a good blue cheese.
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This is honestly hype.
We don't see enough grand jewel theives these days
I will confess I always had the fantasy of a heist of the koh-i-noor. Since I am a mughal lol.
And yes the history is long and complicated. I would recommend the William Dalrymple book here. Its genuinely like reading the lord of the rings from the rings perspective. Incredible stuff.
Have you heard about the spate of thefts of chinese cultural artifacts years back? A whole bunch of musuems had sophisticated high end "thefts" where the only objects taken were things that had been looted from china by imperial powers. The common assumption was that the chinese state decided to take their stuff back.
YES I WAS LITERALLY POSTING THAT RIGHT NOW.
First I was gonna mention it in the comment section bit thought after this post people might like a whole post lol.
That's pretty fucking cool and the most antiimperialist communist thing they've done in my lifetime.
I genuinely don't believe the current government is that cool.
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Plot twist: they're explorers collecting anthropological artifacts to their museum back home.
British empire back at it??
Shame the PayDay franchise is a broken mess these days, that'd be quite the fucking level.
The crown of impératrice Eugénie (Napoléon III), on the first picture, was actually abandonned during their escape and it was found damaged.
I heard some former policeman specialized in heists saying that it seems the team was half experiences half newbies. The entrance was perfect but the escape was a mess. They left the crown but also all sorts of objects like jackets and blankets that the police will be able to analyze.
Also, these jewels are so famous that it will be hard to resell or display anywhere, so they would have to sell them stone by stone for a fraction of the price of the whole. So it's hard to understand the motive.
Sell em to some rich private collector who doesn't care. Surely Musk would like to masturbate wearing a crown.
Why not a commissioned crime? Seems safer than trying to find the rich dude after the fact
Who's gonna commission amateurs and have the liability of being tied to em before the crime.
Or trust the idiots.
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Crack. The motive is crack.
What's crazy to me is that it's in the same room as this ( or at least was when I was there)
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