# The Great Louvre Jewelry Heist **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 19, 2025, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-louvre-jewelry-heist/1024104 "2025-10-19T23:22:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2025, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-louvre-jewelry-heist/1024104/61 "2025-10-27T17:36:19Z")
A samurai must be prepared to die at any moment. As he put it, " On m’a payé pour ça !" ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2025, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-louvre-jewelry-heist/1024104/62 "2025-10-27T19:59:28Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > > [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > > > I was at the Louvre the day before the heist > > Where were you at the time of the heist? Snarfing something called a galettes bretonnes in La Marais at a place called Brutus. A far superior experience compared to the Louvre. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-louvre-jewelry-heist/1024104/63 "2025-10-28T02:18:34Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > he seems to be trying to look like Delon, but something is missing. I guess dressing like Delon’s character from **Le Cercle Rouge** would have been too on-the-nose. ---
**Author:** ![Eric1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3bc359/32.png) [@Eric1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eric1)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-louvre-jewelry-heist/1024104/64 "2025-10-30T13:21:49Z")
The LA news radio AM 640 said they’ve arrested five Algerian delivery drivers for this robbery, No bijoux were recovered. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-louvre-jewelry-heist/1024104/65 "2025-10-30T13:56:19Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > It is uncool to wear a watch on the right wrist. If you are left-handed, it is very appropriate to wear a watch on the right wrist. This is just a handedness bias you are displaying. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-louvre-jewelry-heist/1024104/66 "2025-10-30T13:57:46Z")
I’m left-handed, and when I did wear a watch, it was on the left wrist. The reason was that I could see the time while writing, which was useful during school tests. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-louvre-jewelry-heist/1024104/67 "2025-10-30T14:23:27Z")
As Eric1 said 5 suspects were arrested–but the jewels are still missing: > **[Five new suspects arrested in connection with Louvre robbery](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/30/suspects-arrested-louvre-robbery-paris-crown-jewels)** > > Public prosecutor says arrests were made in and around Paris but suspects ‘did not help us find the stolen goods’ ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2025, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-louvre-jewelry-heist/1024104/68 "2025-10-31T00:03:58Z")
They’re probably already out of the country. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-louvre-jewelry-heist/1024104/69 "2025-11-01T21:29:50Z")
> **[Two more suspects charged over Louvre heist taking total to four](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/01/two-more-suspects-charged-over-louvre-heist-taking-total-to-four)** > > Woman, 38, and man, 37, had been arrested on Wednesday in relation to theft of £76m worth of jewellery in Paris So of the 5 additional suspects arrested they released 3 leaving 4 now in custody. ---
**Author:** ![Eric1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3bc359/32.png) [@Eric1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eric1)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-louvre-jewelry-heist/1024104/70 "2025-11-02T09:45:06Z")
I was surprised at the helmet, glove and vest they left behind. The investigators may have had a significant advantage though it’s hard to say if that made it easier to find suspects. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2025, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-louvre-jewelry-heist/1024104/71 "2025-11-09T19:17:09Z")
They found the teenager dressed as that detective: > **[Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo](https://apnews.com/article/louvre-fedora-man-ap-photo-c0d59847ef5f836a0c5ac49de8bff441)** > > Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2025, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-louvre-jewelry-heist/1024104/72 "2025-11-09T19:37:44Z")
> [@Reply](#): > > They found the teenager dressed as that detective: That’s just a great side story to the heist. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2025, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-louvre-jewelry-heist/1024104/73 "2025-11-09T22:10:29Z")
> [@Reply](#): > > dressed as that detective In my mind, I keep hearing Elvis Costello sing that phrase. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2025, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-louvre-jewelry-heist/1024104/74 "2025-11-10T00:14:09Z")
He wasn’t dressed up like a detective. That’s just the way he dresses. People don’t seem to understand this about Parisians. > The look that jolted tens of millions is not a costume whipped up for a museum trip. Pedro began dressing this way less than a year ago, inspired by 20th-century history and black-and-white images of suited statesmen and fictional detectives. > > “I like to be chic,” he said. “I go to school like this.” ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2025, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-louvre-jewelry-heist/1024104/75 "2025-11-10T00:46:53Z")
(Meanwhile in America grown-ass adults will be upset if you ask them to put on actual pants to go to Walmart.) ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2025, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-louvre-jewelry-heist/1024104/76 "2025-11-10T02:53:08Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > inspired by 20th-century history […] and fictional detectives. Isn’t that dressing as a detective? I mean, I think it’s cool, but it’s not exactly everyday streetwear for Paris. At least hasn’t been for a few decades. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2025, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-louvre-jewelry-heist/1024104/77 "2025-11-10T04:03:12Z")
> [@Reply](#): > > Isn’t that dressing as a detective? I’d bet that’s the reporter’s opinion. Detectives aren’t exactly synonymous with “chic”. If he was seen anywhere but a crime scene nobody would have made that assumption. And, yes, many Parisians are eccentric dressers. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2025, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-louvre-jewelry-heist/1024104/78 "2025-11-10T05:29:48Z")
Well, the kid may have been prompted by the interviewer, but in the article he does explicitly connect his style to detectives: > He loves Poirot (“very elegant”), and likes the idea that an unusual crime calls for someone who looks unusual. “When something unusual happens, you don’t imagine a normal detective,” he said. “You imagine someone different.” ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2025, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-louvre-jewelry-heist/1024104/79 "2025-11-10T14:42:04Z")
I’d say it connects to _fictional_ detectives. Whose unusual style matches the unusual crimes they’re written to solve. Real detectives, private or government, have no distinctive style. Hard to say that for sure about the e.g. 1900-1940 timeframe, but it’s sure true today. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2025, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-louvre-jewelry-heist/1024104/80 "2025-11-10T14:51:22Z")
I was under the impression that male detectives (and spies) from c. 1920-1950 wore a trench coat and fedora to blend in with all the other men for whom that was standard outdoor attire. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-louvre-jewelry-heist/1024104.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-louvre-jewelry-heist/1024104.md?page=5)