French Crown Jewels Theft: What Happens Next? 🏛️

It took the Louvre Museum thieves a little under seven minutes to steal the priceless French crown jewels from the museum in Paris. But it could take them a lot longer to make any profit from them. WSJ spoke with an art detective to learn the decisions the thieves may face if they’re looking to profit from the Louvre heist and what fingerprints could be left behind.

Chapters:
0:00 Profiting off the Louvre heist
0:40 Option 1: keep the jewels intact
1:24 Option 2: breaking them down and selling parts
3:28 Fingerprints in the stones
4:20 The thieves getting cold feet?

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