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These trinkets will go to a very rich collector, not through your typical “fence the goods” path. I’d check Mar-a-Lago as a first step.
Where was security during all this? Was there NO camera coverage on that part of the building? This is The Louvre, not a pawn shop. All the reporters keeps saying this is “the crime of the century” to which I say, “well yeah, but that’s only because your awful security made that possible!”
Best thing to do is to smash them and sell them afterwards to different people, no?
Can’t wait for the film
Oh no, the world is missing some shiny rocks. I demand the planet cease rotating until these rocks are restituted!
can’t wait for the true crime yt essay
Thats where I wear a chastity belt…no ones getting their hands on my crown jewels.
I love how my brain immediately pictured a jewel encrusted royal chastity belt despite nothing in your comment saying anything to suggest that
With the word “Princess” spelled out in diamonds washed in the blood of African children!
I never understood stealing high value items. That shit is gonna be so hot it’d take a deep network to fence.
You’re assuming they don’t have a customer yet.
Indeed, it’s not like this was opportunism.
Just give them to some local children to play with.
As an aside, am I the only one who always thought Alfred was kinda a piece of shit for that story? Like a lot of Batman stuff hasn’t aged well, but even when I first watched that movie, going scorched earth for a jewel thief was fucked up.
Some people want to watch the world burn. Alfred actually did set their world on fire and watched it burn.
Melt it down, problem solved
Things with historical value are worth far more than the cost of their raw materials. These are crown jewels, not copper pipe being sold by meth addicts.
Genius! Melting down rubys and sapphires, why didn’t I think of that!
I mean, they don’t have that high of a melting point… you’ll end up with a lump of worthless alumina, sure, but if you really want to melt them, you can. 🤷♂️
Melt the gold/silver, the stones can be re-shaped. It will lose value but I think it’s the only way to fend it.
Didn’t anyone bother to get an airtag on those things?
Where was Nicholas Cage?
That fact they didn’t secretly GPS tag them… that’s on them, so many different ways to track “PEOPLE” let alone objects, so… who fucked up? Should have been years ago…
People legit put AirTags/gps devices on bikes and cars, etc… it could have been these items as well. Dumb!
How you gonna air tag an earring?
The article can’t be bothered to include any pictures of the stolen jewels
edit: I think these are the stolen jewels
I’ll keep an eye out for them.
“Why do you think these are the stolen items?”
“Well, for one, I just took these pictures in my cellar of stolen jewels…”They would have taken their own photos, but the jewels were stolen so they couldn’t.
I thought this type of crime was deeply rooted in the past, and fiction. If no-one got seriously hurt: chapeau!
Maybe not so unusual. I was at a museum in Germany on vacation a few months before I saw in the news there was a jewel heist there
Last headline I saw about this said 7 minutes. Pretty soon the thieves will be reaching back in time to grab these things.
Maybe they’re hoping that, by posting the wrong figure, they’ll compel the thieves to correct them, thereby revealing themselves.
6 or 7 minutes you say? I’m sorry. I’ll see myself out.
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