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Theo Farrant

How the Louvre jewel robbery gave a German ladder firm a golden lift

German family-run business Böcker, based in North Rhine-Westphalia, became an accidental accomplice in the weekend's highest-profile Louvre Museum heist — after one of its mechanical lifts played a key role in the audacious heist.

On Sunday, perpetrators parked a truck with a lifting platform at the Louvre, used it to climb onto a terrace, and from there forced their way into the interior of the building and stole crown jewels worth €88 million in the space of seven minutes.

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