Over the weekend, the world’s most visited museum experienced an incident reminiscent of a “James Bond” film.
The Louvre, in Paris, home to Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa,” was robbed by four thieves on Sunday morning in its Apollo Gallery, where some of France’s most prized jewels and other royal artifacts are displayed.
At 9:30 a.m. on Sunday, masked thieves disguised as construction workers used a basket lift to reach the windows of the gallery, where they used an angle grinder to break through and reportedly used a disc cutter to reach the jewels in their casings — all in just seven minutes. The suspects then fled on motorcycles.
Former jewel thief Larry Lawton told Fox News that the heist “had to be an inside job, or inside information.” Lawton, who now works with law enforcement