Despite being home to many exclusive art pieces and a holder of multi-billion-euro art collections, the Louvre was robbed again. The audacious, bold Louvre Museum robbery occurred on October 19, 2025, in the open daylight, requiring only four to seven minutes. Masked thieves entered the exhibition room with France’s royal jewels using a mechanical ladder, while two more thieves entered the museum to neutralize the guards. Once the heist was committed, the gang escaped using mopeds. Here are the details of what is currently known about the robbery and how the investigation progresses.

Details of the Louvre Museum Robbery

A team of four was involved in the robbery, with two criminals entering the museum using a mechanical ladder and a window of the museum’s first floor to get into the exhibition room of the Gallery of Apollo. Once in, they broke the exhibition cases and stole several unique exhibits from the collection of royal jewels of the Napoleonic-era France. The whole robbery took no more than seven minutes, with the thieves trying to set fire to the vehicle carrying the extendable ladder used to penetrate the building, but the museum’s staff didn’t let them do that. Nobody was injured during the accident.

What Art Objects Were Stolen?

The total damage caused by the Sunday Louvre Museum robbery includes eight unique items from the collection of 19th-century French royal jewels. These include the Empress Eugénie’s brooch and a pair of emerald earrings, with other items remaining unnamed.

Damage was caused to another exclusive art object – Empress Eugénie’s crown, presumably dropped by the thieves in haste and broken as a result of such careless treatment. The crown represents a unique jewelry item, encrusted with 1,354 diamonds and 56 emeralds, as well as sophisticated golden ornamentation. One of the unresolved mysteries surrounding this case is the absence of thieves’ attention to a $60 million-worth Regent diamond, which was also housed in the Gallery of Apollo at the moment of robbery.

The robbery points to the inconvenient facts about the Louvre’s underinvestment in security measures. The security problem was underlined for many years, with the Louvre’s officials requesting urgent governmental subsidies to strengthen its security and renovate museum halls. The financing plan was developed but not yet implemented. Home to eternal masterpieces like The Mona Lisa, welcoming over eight million visitors every year, the Louvre is expected to have much more robust security guarantees and protections.