It was shortly after the stunning heist of the crown jewels at the Louvre when Paris-based Associated Press 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.

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It wasn’t a particularly great photo, with someone’s shoulder obscuring part of the foreground, Camus told himself.

But it did the job — showing French police sealing off the world’s most-visited museum

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