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True Crime Paris
Daylight Heists, Stolen Masterpieces, and Vanished Jewels
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Welcome to Paris, the city of light, of grand boulevards, glittering jewellery windows and some of the greatest art ever made. But behind those beautiful facades lies a very different Paris, one of daylight heists, stolen masterpieces and vanished jewels. On this walk we trace real, documented crimes to the exact places they happened, from the Louvre to the Palais de Tokyo. Each stop is a true story, told with suspense but also with care for the real people involved.
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The Seven-Minute Heist - Musee du Louvre
Museum
On the morning of 19 October 2025 a crew used a furniture lift to reach a first-floor window of the Louvre, cut into the Apollo Gallery and fled on scooters with royal and Napoleonic jewels worth about 88 million euros in roughly seven minutes; arrests followed and the investigation is ongoing.
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The Machete Attack - Carrousel du Louvre
Underground mall
On the morning of 3 February 2017 a man armed with a machete lunged at soldiers guarding the Louvre entrance beneath the Carrousel; a soldier fired five shots to stop him, one soldier was slightly hurt, and the attacker was wounded and arrested in what police treated as a terrorist attack.
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The Ritz Boutique Raid - Place Vendome
Grand hotel
On the night of 9 to 10 January 2018 a gang armed with hatchets and handguns smashed the jewellery display cases inside the Ritz on Place Vendome and grabbed about 4.5 million euros, but several raiders were trapped by the hotel's locked doors, arrested, and charged with armed organised theft while most of the loot was recovered.
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The Fake-Police Robbery - La Madeleine
Square
On the night of 2 to 3 October 2016, at a private residence just off the Madeleine on rue Tronchet, men posing as police bound a world-famous celebrity and stole about 10 million dollars in jewellery; the press called them the grandpa robbers, and in May 2025 eight defendants, including the convicted ringleader Aomar Ait Khedache, were found guilty.
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The Square of the Guillotine - Place de la Concorde
Square
During the French Revolution this square, then called Place de la Revolution, was the main stage of the guillotine: King Louis the Sixteenth was beheaded here on 21 January 1793, Marie Antoinette on 16 October 1793, and more than 1,300 people in all before Robespierre himself was executed in July 1794 and the square was renamed Concorde in 1795.
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The Art-Fair Sleight of Hand - Grand Palais
Exhibition hall
On 2 April 2017, as the Art Paris art fair was being dismantled inside the Grand Palais, two thieves used a classic distraction scam, with one claiming a jewellery saleswoman had dropped money while the other snatched her bag, making off with around 200,000 euros in jewels.
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The Harry Winston Heist - Avenue Montaigne
Avenue
In December 2008 several men, some disguised in wigs and women's clothing, walked into the Harry Winston boutique on Avenue Montaigne and grabbed around 85 million euros of jewels in minutes; more than two dozen suspects were later arrested, convictions followed, and some of the loot was famously recovered hidden in a drainpipe.
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The Spider-Man Art Theft - Palais de Tokyo
Museum
On the night of 19 to 20 May 2010 the cat burglar Vjeran Tomic, nicknamed Spider-Man, climbed in through a window of the Musee d'Art Moderne in the Palais de Tokyo and cut five masterpieces by Picasso, Matisse, Braque, Modigliani and Leger from their frames; worth more than 100 million euros, the paintings were never recovered, and Tomic was later convicted and sentenced to eight years.
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