PARIGI (FRANCIA) (ITALPRESS) – There is no peace for France of Macron and Lecornu. At the Louvre, as in a Belfagor series, Napoleon’s jewels were stolen. The thieves entered around 9.30 from the facade on the Seine along, using a montacarichi to reach the Galleria d’Apollon where a selection of the Jewels of the French Crown is displayed, and after forcing a window they took away nine unique pieces of invaluable value from the collection of jewels of Napoleon and Empress Maria Luisa D’Austria and fled on board motorcycles.
A stolen jewel, the crown of Empress Eugenia was found, damaged, outside the museum. Discovered the theft the Louvre was isolated from the Gendarmerie that brought out all visitors and closed the doors to allow the reliefs of the scientific police and investigations, beginning with the examination of the video recordings. The stolen jewels are of “unbeatable historical and patrimonial value” declared the Minister of Interior, Laurent Nuñez, who rushed to the Louvre together with the Minister of Culture Rachida Dati, who apologized for the extraordinary closure of the most visited museum in the world. The Ministry said that a precise inventory of stolen items is under way.
The Louvre, which exhibits over 33,000 works ranging from antiquity, sculpture and painting, from Mesopotamia, Egypt and the classic world to European masters, has a long history of thefts and attempted robberies. The most famous dates back to 1911, when the Gioconda disappeared from its frame, stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia, a former worker emigrated from Italy who hid inside the museum and went out with the painting under the coat. It was recovered two years later in Florence and the theft helped to make the portrait of Leonardo da Vinci the most famous work of art in the world. Interior Minister Nuñez said he believed that the authors of theft can be foreign and, while believing that it is not possible to “impede everything”, he acknowledged that there is a “great vulnerability in French museums”. How to say that the Luovre, where others at the Gioconda are exposed among the most precious works of the world, such as the Venus of Milo and the Nike of Samotracia, is a colabrodo.
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