History has been made!
Over the weekend, a crew of thieves rolled up to the famous Paris museum IN BROAD DAYLIGHT, used a crane to get inside, used chainsaws to cut through protective cases, and stole nine priceless treasures.
One, the gold crown of Empress Eugénie seen in the video below, was discarded and found later by police.
More from CNN:
Precious artifacts snatched from Paris's Louvre Museum Sunday include an emerald necklace set among more than 1,000 diamonds gifted by Napoleon to his second wife and other treasures of 'inestimable' value.
The thieves targeted the Louvre's Apollo Gallery on the upper floor, which houses the French Crown Jewels. In the course of a brisk seven-minute heist, they broke into two high-security display cases and stole nine items, according to France's culture ministry. The thieves left on motorcycles, police said.
Heist movies make it seem like breaking into these museums take real skill.
Turns out, you can park a crane outside, rob them while the museum is open, and get away on cheap motorbikes!
A woman even took a video of one of the thieves in action ... and yet the robbers managed to get away without any interaction with museum security or police.
To make matters worse, it's not even the only heist from a major Paris museum that's made headlines this week. A Chinese woman has been charged with stealing gold nuggets on September 16th from the city's National Museum of Natural History.
This had led more than one person to ask:
That brings us back to the Louvre's first female security chief, Dominique Buffin.
Courtesy of Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore:
The Louvre's head of security, Dominique Buffin, was accused of being hired not on merit but on DEI (Diversity and Inclusion) policies and of putting France's national treasures at risk: the daring raid has humiliated France has also highlighted long-standing concerns about the security of the Louvre.
Ms Buffin, 46 years old, was hired as the first woman head of security by Laurence des Cars, the museum's first female director, last September. But yesterday, Ms Buffin, who has held positions in the police and the French Ministry of Culture, faced calls for her resignation and accusations of unsuitability for the role. Marion Maréchal, MEP and granddaughter of Marine Le Pen, declared that France is 'the laughing stock of the world' because of the 'ridiculous theft'.
She wrote on social media: 'The Minister of Culture must demand the immediate resignation of the museum director and the head of security, whom she appointed as part of a policy of feminisation. It is the cost of giving up competence: endangering the cultural heritage of our nation'. Ms Le Pen, leader of the Rassemblement National party, called the raid a 'wound to the soul of the country'.
If they lose their jobs, Buffin and des Cars would make further history as the first female leaders to be fired from the Louvre.
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