Thieves stole thousands and thousands of dollars value of jewerly from the museum of French glassmaker Lalique in an early-morning heist on Sunday, months after the brazen US$100-million daylight heist on the Louvre.
The museum was broken into in Wingen-sur-Morder in northeastern France around 5:30 a.m. local time and the thieves headed straight for the jewellery room, in response to Agence France-Presse.
“Around twenty pieces of jewelery were stolen. The loss is currently being assessed but could amount to several million euros, likely near 4 million,” a source told the outlet.
In accordance with the Times of London, the masked thieves broke into six display cases while only being within the museum for 11 minutes.
The museum, dedicated to glassmaker René Lalique, said that it will be closed for several days due to the burglary, according to a press release on its website.
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Christian Dorschner, the mayor of Wingen-sur-Moder, told local newspaper Les Dernieres nouvelles d’Alsace that the thieves went straight to the jewellery room and only visited that room.
“All of the alarms went off, just as they need to. After which with the safety company, apparently, there was a serious failure on their part: they didn’t intervene instantly, they didn’t inform the gendarmes,” Christian Dorschner said.
The museum took to Facebook to share various items that were stolen throughout the heist, including a woman-dragonfly with open wings pendant, created by René Lalique around 1898–1900.
“Following the terrible burglary the museum suffered, it’s unimaginable to hold on as if nothing had happened. The investigation is ongoing,” the museum added.
The museum said that every one of the missing items have been identified by the museum team and their descriptions have been passed on to the relevant authorities to help with the search.
The robbery is the newest museum heist in France.
In October, municipal officials discovered that a part of a display on the Maison des Lumières Denis Diderot (Denis Diderot House of Enlightenment), positioned in Langres, France, had disappeared.
Thieves broke into the Maison des Lumières Denis Diderot after breaking down the fundamental gate of the Hôtel du Breuil-de-Saint-Germain, which houses the museum, the Washington Post reports.
The museum didn’t have any visitors present when its security noticed that a sliding door had been forced open and a display case containing gold and silver coins had been broken into, Pierrick White, a senior local official, told BFMTV.
The coins stolen — roughly 2,000 of them — were value around €90,000 (C$147,000), the BBC reports.
The news of this other robbery got here after the Louvre’s former director acknowledged a “terrible failure” on the Paris tourist attraction following the daylight crown jewel heist earlier in October.
Thieves took lower than eight minutes to steal crown jewels valued at 88 million euros ($102 million) from the Louvre, in a weekend operation that stunned visitors, exposed glaring vulnerabilities and left one in all France’s most symbolically charged collections in criminal hands.
Several suspects were later arrested, however the stolen pieces remain missing.
—with files from The Associated Press
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