# @bbcnews on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DQCNmTQEWKn
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/35867897-bbcnews-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-10-20T14:34:18.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** BBC News (@bbcnews) — https://gondola.cc/bbcnews

## Caption

The Louvre Museum in Paris is still closed on Monday while police investigate a brazen heist which targeted France’s priceless crown jewels.
 
Thieves wielding power tools broke into the world’s most visited museum in broad daylight, before escaping on scooters with eight extremely valuable items of jewellery. 
 
Two more items were found near the scene, apparently having been dropped during the escape.
 
Experts have said that thieves will find it difficult to sell the stolen jewels intact, and might "break them up, melt down the valuable metal, recut the valuable stones and hide evidence of their crime".
 
Tap the link in BBCNews’s bio to find out how the robbery unfolded.
 
(📷 Louvre Museum)
 
#TheLouvre #BBCNews

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