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A day after robbery at Paris’s Louvre museum, Justice Minister Gerard Darmanin has said that the incident has cast France in a “deplorable" light. The opposition leaders, meanwhile, have called the heist a national humiliation.

On Sunday at 9.30 am, barely half an hour after the day’s first tickets had been scanned, a small, highly organised group of intruders made its move, pulling off a swift, bold and irrevocably damaging robbery that would stun the world.

According to the Washington Post, the robbers arrived in broad daylight, entering the heavily guarded museum via a window of the ornate Galerie d’Apollon—the vaulted hall within the Louvre where France’s historic crown jewels are displayed.

Working with clockwork precision, they used a basket lift mounted o

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