Captured on film at the Louvre on the day of the heist, a 15-year-old Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot enthusiast decided to lean into the mystery rather than shy away from it.

The fedora-wearing Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux did not rush online to unmask himself despite theories he was the French detective given the task of solving the nation’s ‘most humiliating heist’.

He isn’t an AI fake, a police officer, or an turncoat gangster hiding in plain sight. He is simply a young boy who lives with his parents and grandfather in Rambouillet.

Pedro said: ‘I didn’t want to say immediately it was me. With this photo, there is a mystery, so you have to make it last.’ For his only in-person interview since the photo that made him an unlikely enigma worthy of a Sir Arthur Conan Doyle novel, he arr

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