Why French Museums Keep Getting Robbed

为什么法国博物馆总是遭到抢劫?

The Journal.

2025-11-18

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The daylight heist at the Louvre Museum in October, during which thieves made off with more than $100 million in crown jewels, captured the world's attention. But the theft was just one in a series that have taken place at museums all across France this year. WSJ’s Noemie Bisserbe explains how the wave of heists reveals deep-rooted security vulnerabilities in the country’s hundreds of museums— and raises questions about what it takes to protect national treasures. Jessica Mendoza hosts. Further Listening: - How an Antiques Dealer Uncovered a Massive Museum Heist - Six Days of Chaos at MGM's Casinos - How Investigators Cracked a $3.4 Billion Crypto Heist Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • Almost exactly a month ago,

  • thieves raided the Louvre Museum in Paris and in broad daylight made off with millions of dollars worth of jewels.

  • They apparently used a mobile exterior freight elevator, if you will.

  • to get up to the Apollo room.

  • Two people dressed in workers' vests cutting the glass and grabbing the jewels.

  • Getting away with an estimated 102 million dollars worth of jewelry in just seven minutes.

  • While the world's eyes were still on the Louvre,

  • the mayor of a small French town got some surprising news.

  • She received a call from the director of the local museum.

  • who informed them that the local museum had been robbed too,

  • that a collection of gold coins had disappeared during the night.

  • And the museum is called the Musée du Lumière de Nididro.

  • And so it's a museum which is dedicated to this French philosopher.

  • And the museum is really kept by the city.

  • Long is a town of roughly 8,000 people, about a three and a half hour drive from Paris.

  • The robbery at the museum there,

  • happening so soon after the Louvre heist, hit the local community hard.

  • The Louvre heist happened on a Sunday morning,

  • and that robbery was on the evening of that same Sunday, so just less than 24 hours.

  • Oh, wow.