Louvre heist timeline: Minute-by-minute breakdown
Seven minutes is all it took to artfully plunder the world’s most well-known museum.
On Sunday, 4 masked thieves stole eight items of bijou from the Louvre valued at $102 million, sparking a nationwide outcry and nationwide manhunt. The daring heist took simply seven minutes, leaving investigators looking for solutions as to how one of many world’s most safe museums was robbed in such a short window of time.
Here is a minute-by-minute breakdown of the way it all went down, primarily based on what investigators know thus far.