# 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:** 9\ **Page:** 5
**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 11, 2025, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-louvre-jewelry-heist/1024104/81 "2025-11-11T07:38:37Z")
I just hope the kid gets a cameo role in the inevitable movie adaptation. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2025, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-louvre-jewelry-heist/1024104/82 "2025-11-12T00:15:11Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > He’s wearing his hat wrong, look at Alain Delon in the clip provided by **[Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-louvre-jewelry-heist/1024104/54)** to see how it is done. From Reply’s link: > [@](#): > > The fedora, angled just so, is his homage to French Resistance hero Jean Moulin. ---
**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 12, 2025, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-louvre-jewelry-heist/1024104/83 "2025-11-12T01:59:44Z")
Who was the inspiration for another Melville film (_Army of Shadows_). ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2025, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-louvre-jewelry-heist/1024104/84 "2025-11-12T12:03:30Z")
I did not know he was just a 15 year old, my criticism was too harsh. He’s cool for his age and played the meme fame well so far. I can’t take back what I wrote, but I can admit I was wrong. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2025, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-louvre-jewelry-heist/1024104/85 "2025-11-12T15:59:41Z")
(Keeps coming back to the hoping for something about the heist instead of some kid in a fedora. Keeps being disappointed.) ---
**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 25, 2025, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-louvre-jewelry-heist/1024104/86 "2025-11-25T15:03:53Z")
> **[Four more people arrested in connection with Louvre heist](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/25/more-people-arrested-louvre-heist)** > > French media say those held include alleged final member of four-man gang who broke into museum But where are the jewels? ---
**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:** [November 26, 2025, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-louvre-jewelry-heist/1024104/87 "2025-11-26T02:24:51Z")
Probably already out of the country, especially if this gang was hired to do the heist, given the financial backing to set it up, and provided with a dropoff place to deposit the loot ASAP. ---
**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:** [January 16, 2026, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-louvre-jewelry-heist/1024104/88 "2026-01-16T14:45:29Z")
Update: [https://news.artnet.com/art-world/stolen-louvre-jewels-parking-garage-2737363](https://news.artnet.com/art-world/stolen-louvre-jewels-parking-garage-2737363) > There has been a breakthrough in the case of the [$102 million heist](https://news.artnet.com/art-world/louvre-robbery-2701689) of the Louvre jewels in Paris. Investigators say they have traced the thieves to an underground parking garage where they temporarily stashed the imperial jewels. The surveillance footage of the location marks the last confirmed sighting of the trove, which has now been missing for nearly three months. Presumably this all ends in a climactic shootout à la _Touchez pas au grisbi…_ ---
**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:** [May 28, 2026, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-louvre-jewelry-heist/1024104/89 "2026-05-28T17:15:09Z")
A movie is in the works. [https://news.artnet.com/art-world/louvre-heist-film-movie-romain-gavras-2776664](https://news.artnet.com/art-world/louvre-heist-film-movie-romain-gavras-2776664) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-great-louvre-jewelry-heist/1024104.md?page=4)