Louvre heist: Four suspects, seven minutes, eight pieces of jewellery. That’s all it took to shake France’s Louvre museum on October 20. Closed for investigation, the thieves ransacked a few displays in the Apollo Gallery and fled on scooters. The gang, posing as a construction crew, robbed the place in broad daylight, with all the tourists still present. However unfortunate, the Internet could not help but think the incident was right out of a heist movie.

From Ocean’s Fourteen’s George Clooney feeling ‘proud’ of the thieves to pull off something as gutsy, the netizens were equally surprised. In fact, some conspiracy theories suggest that the incident was a PR stunt for the upcoming magic-heist film Now You See Me 3, which felt very plausible. Spread across social media platforms, t

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