On the 19th of October, at 9:30am two thieves parked a truck at the Louvre. They carved a hole in the window, climbed into the gallery, smash two display cases and made off with 88 million euros worth of crown jewels. It was all over in eight minutes. It turns out robbing the Louvre isn’t as hard as you might think; many of the security cameras are analogue and there are 249 rooms in the gallery that have no cameras at all. The actual hard part is figuring out what to do with your loot.
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