Possibly it was all just an advertising stunt…?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/23/german-firm-campaign-lift-louvre-heist-bocker
Full marks for jumping on the opportunity otherwise.
That’s also a handy outfit for getting into wedding or bar mitzvah receptions if they’re not checking names at the door.
Sounds like the plot of a movie.
Touchez pas aux hors-d’oeuvres
Jen tried that and was doing swimmingly until the translation client on her laptop crashed.
Never been to a bar mitzvah, but have never been to a wedding reception where names were checked at the door.
(Also, in my early 20s, my buddy and I used to crash receptions in the hotels up near OHare decades before the movie.)
One report said two were arrested, but we know at least four were involved in the robbery.
The plot thickens:
”the guy walking past the officers was unusually well dressed, in a coat, a jacket and tie and wearing a fedora”
There is no such thing as “unusually well dressed” in Paris.
I suppose I’d say that’s someone wearing an anachronistic costume, not someone being “well dressed”. None of a suitcoat, vest, umbrella, etc. are unusual in and of themselves. But the style of them, and the particular color combo just shrieks 1930s-1940s cosplay.
Maybe he was the lookout. Certainly fooled the other police and journalist.
All good magicians need a distracting sidekick. “Hey everyone! Look at meeee!” sure works to ensure they’re not looking at the real action going on nearby.
Seriously, there are people dressed up like this everywhere in Paris. I was at the Louvre the day before the heist, and Fashion Week had just concluded. This guy would have barely gotten a second look on the Metro. The reason people online are speculating that he’s a detective is because the cops are showing no interest in his appearance. But the real reason they are showing no interest is because there isn’t anything notable about someone in that city dressing outlandishly.
Don’t be so sure…
Did she catch him?
Its always fascinating to read the long history of many of these jewels, lost, found, cut, stolen, refashioned…hidden for years. Heres a bit on one of the other French jewels. They also have “the Grand Sapphire” in another museum.
edit to fix location mistakes. Its confusing!!
(I’m a big sapphire fan, I used to facet colored gems as a hobby)
No, but he realizes he’s a marked man anyway and ends up committing “suicide by cop.”
He’s wearing his hat wrong, look at Alain Delon in the clip provided by Q.Q.Switcheroo to see how it is done. This guy would have made many an eyebrow rise, he seems to be trying to look like Delon, but something is missing.
You can’t blame someone who isn’t Alain Delon for not being Alain Delon. That’s too high a bar.
Of course I can, particularly when they are trying too hard to impersonate him. Further: You don’t wear a rain coat, a hat and an umbrella. You don’t put the clip on your tie so high – actually, you don’t wear one with a vest, that holds the tie in place and you don’t need the clip. It is uncool to wear a watch on the right wrist.
Where were you at the time of the heist?