Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau instructed broadcaster RTL the museum’s curator had estimated the losses at that quantity however the thieves wouldn’t earn the equal if they’d “the very dangerous thought of melting down these jewels”.
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French police on Tuesday stepped up the hunt for thieves who stole the priceless royal jewels from the Louvre museum, as scrutiny mounted over safety on the nation’s cultural establishments.
Sunday’s audacious daylight theft — which lasted simply seven minutes — was the most recent in a string of thefts from French museums in latest months, and has left authorities scrambling to extend safety measures.
In a separate case, a prosecutor stated on Tuesday {that a} Chinese lady had been charged over participating within the theft of greater than $1 million value of gold nuggets from one other Paris museum final month.
Scores of investigators had been nonetheless in search of Sunday’s culprits, engaged on the idea that it was an organised crime group that clambered up a ladder on a truck to interrupt into the museum, then dropped a diamond-studded crown as they fled.
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Detectives had been scouring video digicam footage from across the Louvre in addition to of predominant highways out of Paris for indicators of the 4 robbers, who escaped on scooters.
