Louvre Thieves

Everyone knows about the infamous Louvre robbery. You know, when two robbers casually managed to snatch jewels worth millions of dollars from the Louvre Museum in under ten minutes. Across social media platforms, creators have made joke videos about the Louvre heist, some even suspecting that the robbers were cartoon characters. This included fictional master thief Carmen Sandiego, as well as editing the stolen jewelry into their pictures, which they took while vacationing in Paris.

On October 19th, just 30 minutes after the gates of the Louvre Museum opened to the public, the two burglars, faces hidden under masks, rode a monte-meuble, a truck-mounted electric ladder, to the south of the building, where they used the ladder to infiltrate the gilded Galerie d’Apollon section. There, the robbers smashed two more glass cases, sounding more alarms, before stealing eight precious jewels. The total stolen was an estimated 102 million dollars worth of historical artifacts.

The robbers still haven’t been brought to justice. The investigators of the crime have arrested multiple suspects. Initially, two men were arrested before five more individuals were detained on October 29th. Some of the suspects admitted “partial involvement,” but the whereabouts of the jewels or of the actual burglars remains unknown. Given that the robbers appeared to have a good knowledge of the museum’s internal layout, insider jobs are suspected. Nevertheless, officials still haven’t directly placed the blame on anyone.

Despite the negativity of the situation, however, Gen Z has been handling it surprisingly well. Not only did this generation make light-hearted jokes about the robbery, but they also didn’t seem to be bothered by the fact that the biggest heist on the Louvre since 1998 had just been pulled. It just goes to show how efficiently Gen Z is at deflecting non-life-threatening situations with humor and laughs.

[https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/world/europe/louvre-paris-robbery.html]

[https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/louvre-robbers-arrested-heists-missing-jewels-spark-new-questions-about-inside-job-1752219]