We’re big fans of heist movies here at The Mary Sue, but we never dreamed we’d get to report on an honest-to-goodness Louvre Museum robbery. A group of theives literally did their own version of “Gone in 7 Minutes” in the world-famous landmark on Sunday. French authorities are still looking for these four mystery people as of the time of this article’s writing. Thieves helped themselves to crown jewels with the help of a truck’s basket lift and some careful planning. It’s the kind of thing we see in movies and we’re trying to figure out how something like this even happens in 2025.
CNN interviewed France’s interior minister Laurent Nuñez this week, after the robbery occured. In the government’s estimation, this whole thing was planned to within the second. “Clearly, a team had been scouting the location. It was obviously a very experienced team that acted very, very quickly,” the interior minister offered. “I am confident that we will very quickly find the perpetrators and, above all, recover the stolen goods,”
