Thieves stole millions of dollars worth of jewelry from French glassmaker Lalique’s museum in an early morning robbery on Sunday, months after the Louvre’s $100 million daylight robbery.
The museum in Wingens-sur-Murder in northeastern France was broken into around 5:30 a.m. local time and the thieves went straight to the jewelry room. According to Agence France-Presse.
A source told the website: “About twenty pieces of jewelery were stolen. The loss is currently being assessed but could amount to several million euros, possibly closer to four million.”
according to Times of LondonThe masked thieves broke into six display cases while they were in the museum for just 11 minutes.
The museum dedicated to glassmaker Rene Lalique will be closed for several days due to the burglary, he said. To a statement On its website.
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Christian Dorschner, Mayor of Vingen-sur-Moder He told local newspaper Les Dernieres nouvelles d’Alsace That the thieves went directly to the jewelry room and visited only that room.
“All the alarms went off, as they should,” Christian Dorschner said. “After that, there appears to be a major failure on the part of the security company: they did not intervene immediately, and they did not inform the gendarmes.”
The museum took to Facebook to share a number of items stolen during the heist, including a Dragonfly Woman with Open Wings Necklacecreated by René Lalique around 1898-1900.
“After the horrific robbery at the museum, it is impossible to continue as if nothing had happened. The investigation is continuing.” Museum added.
the The museum said All missing items have been identified by the museum team and their descriptions have been sent to the relevant authorities to assist in the search.
This theft is the latest museum theft in France.
In October, municipal officials discovered that part of the display at the Maison des Lumières Denis Diderot (Maison des Lumières of Enlightenment), located in Langres, France, had disappeared.
Thieves broke into the Maison des Lumières Denis Diderot after breaking the main gate of the Hôtel du Breuil-de-Saint-Germain, which houses the museum. The Washington Post reports.
The museum had no visitors when its security noticed that a sliding door had been forced open and a display cabinet containing gold and silver coins had been broken into, said Beric White, a senior local official. BFMTV Customs.
The value of the stolen currencies, about 2,000 of them, is approximately 90,000 euros (147,000 Canadian dollars). BBC reports.
News of this other theft came after the former director of the Louvre Museum admitted there had been a “fiasco” at the Paris tourist attraction after the crown jewel was stolen in broad daylight earlier in October.
It took thieves less than eight minutes to steal the Crown Jewels worth an estimated 88 million euros ($102 million) from the Louvre Museum, in a weekend operation that stunned visitors, exposed glaring weaknesses and left one of France’s most emblematic collections in the hands of criminals.
Several suspects were later arrested, but the stolen items are still missing.
-With files from The Associated Press
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