Paris: It was shortly after the stunning heist of the crown jewels at the Louvre when photographer Thibault Camus caught in his frame a dapperly dressed young man walking by uniformed French police officers, their car blocking one of the museum gates.

Instinctively, he took the shot.

Thibault Camus photographed the dapper man shortly after the Louvre jewel heist. The image whipped up online speculation as to the man’s identity – and even his existence. Credit: AP

It wasn’t a particularly great photo, with someone’s shoulder obscuring part of the foreground, the Paris-based AP photographer told himself.

But it did the job – showing French police sealing off the world’s most-visited museum after the brazen daylight robbery last Sunday.

Plus, Camus figured, the man walking past th

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