America First Report By Shane Fisher
Paris police moved swiftly Saturday evening, nabbing at least two men in their thirties linked to the audacious smash-and-grab at the Louvre that stripped France of treasures tied to its imperial past. One suspect was collared at Charles de Gaulle Airport, luggage in hand, on the verge of jetting off to Africa with who knows what tucked away. The Paris prosecutor’s office confirmed the detentions but kept the tally close to the vest, fueling whispers that the net might widen further.
The robbery itself reads like a scene from a forgotten pulp novel: a crew posing as construction workers rolls up in broad daylight on October 19, extends a cherry picker to the museum’s second-floor window, and in under eight minutes, they’re in and out with eight priceless pieces worth 88 million euros.
Angle grinders whine, display cases shatter, and suddenly, the ghosts of queens and empresses are missing their finery—a sapphire diadem and matching necklace from the 19th-century royals Marie-Amélie and Hortense, an emerald set belonging to Napoleon’s second wife Marie-Louise, a reliquary brooch, and Empress Eugénie’s diamond diadem paired with a sprawling corsage brooch of imperial make. They even snagged a lone earring from that set, as if to mock the precision of it all…
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