I’m holding out hope that it was George Clooney going full Danial Day Lewis for the next Ocean’s movie.
Really the first thing I thought of too, like decades of heist movies and shit like that, and none of it really happens.
and none of it really happens.
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Have other museums been targeted lately?
Yes. In September, thieves using a blowtorch and power tools stole nuggets of raw gold worth about $700,000 from the National Museum of Natural History, a few subway stops from the Louvre in Paris.
That same month, two porcelain dishes and a vase worth about €9.5 million, or about $11 million, were stolen from the Adrien Dubouché National Museum in Limoges, France. And in 2024, thieves stole elaborate snuff boxes from the Cognacq-Jay Museum in Paris.
Danny Ocean is back at it.
Interesting. Well I suppose with the world hurtling into uncertainty all over the place you might as well take your shot.
Damn, I hope they know what these pieces are worth and at the least sell it to some worthy collector who knows how to take care of them.
I don’t really care about the jewels themselves, but I guess they have some historical or artistic value. I suspect that unless they were stolen to order by an oligarch, there are backroom negotiations going on with the insurance company and they’ll eventually be returned, more valuable than ever because of the story. As for the movie, there’s probably already a couple of scripts in production.
I agree with you. It was totally staged. Those extremely valuable items just sitting there uselessly rotting away are far too valuable not to cash in. Someone with a lot of authority decided to orchestrate this heist so those jewels could finally be cashed in. And they are in such a high position of authority that the only authority above them is god.
Because the news reports I saw had the journalists state confidently & dismissively that there is no expectation for the jewels to be recovered.
…Because the metals are likely melted down for scrap value and the jewels are probably popped out and sold to gray-market connections. Unless you happen to run into a jeweler who REALLY KNOWS THEIR SHIT, there’s really not a good way to trace a gem back to the piece it came from unless that jewel is incredibly identifiable, not worked further after its theft, and of a known provenance.
It’s not “oh there’s a shadowy dude who ordered them to be stolen away so they could be cashed in”, it’s because jewelry theft is a highly practiced art and anyone smart enough to put a heist together like this and simply vanish is also smart enough to make sure the evidence is gone within days. Puts real reasonable doubt into a jury or judge when your prosecutor has to say “well, we don’t HAVE THE JEWELRY, and we can’t GET IT BACK, but I swear this is the dude”.
It’s like having your car stolen and chopped.
Viral marketing for The da Vinci Code reboot.
