Just 3 minutes and 58 seconds were needed for them bandits to carry out the robbery of the Louvre museum, which was taken from a movie script.
In less than 4 minutes, the robbers managed to “empty” the Gallery of Apollo in the Louvre museum, seizing 88 million euros worth of Crown jewels.
Their modus operandi is illustrated frame-by-frame by video with the use of artificial intelligence thanks to information from the Police and Justice Department of BFM TV, through an impressive graphic representation.
The four suspects arrived at the Louvre in a vehicle carrying a mechanical platform (elevator), which two of them used to gain access to the Apollo Gallery through a balcony near the Seine.
Photos from the scene show the metal ladder reaching up to a first floor window, while as the director of the museum said, the only camera that it showed the space outside, it was facing away towards the Seine.
Two of the robbers entered the museum by cutting the window glass with power tools, and then threatened the guards, who immediately evacuated the area. The perpetrators then broke the windows of two display cases containing the precious jewels.
French police said the robbers were inside for less than four minutes and escaped at 09:38 a.m. on two scooters that were waiting for them outside the museum.
Minute by minute, the attackers carried out their risky plan, thus exposing one of the world’s largest museums that was “stripped” of security issues.