What appears to be the robbers’ escape from the Louvre Museum during Sunday’s Brazen Day Heist shows the thieves what they are doing with valuables of more than $100 million.
video, acquired by French Outlet BFMTVit shows two men landing on a powerful, expansive platform as a basket slowly lowers to the ground outside the world’s most visited museum.
The suspects, one in a neon vest and the other wearing a motorcycle helmet, seem to be in no hurry as they help them move the stolen truck outside the museum, following a period of less than eight minutes.
When they reached the ground, they did not approach the camera, but the police said they escaped on motorcycles.
The footage was shot from inside the Louvre on Sunday, overlooking the Seine, according to the Telegraph. The original source of the video is not confirmed.
The French Prosecutor’s Office said they were aware of the video, but declined to comment, citing the integrity of the ongoing investigation.
The investigation is ongoing
Prosecutor Laure Beccuau said that the expert analysis continues and that four people have been identified as participating in the robbery. The prosecutor added that a team of about 100 investigators has been assigned to the crime.
Investigators found traces of DNA samples on Helmet’s bead and gloves and are aware of a new video showing the two thieves fleeing, prosecutors told NBC News.
The prosecutor’s office added that it is currently unclear whether the DNA belonged to the suspects who took the jewels with them during the distribution. Detectives are continuing to analyze Video Camera Footage from the museum and major streets in Paris for signs of the robbers.
The jewels remain missing and thieves are at large after breaking into the Galerie D’Apollon (Apollo gallery), which houses the crown jewels, officials said.
This photo, provided on Oct. 23, 2025, through Interpol and taken from its website, we show the treasures stolen from the museum of Oct.19, 2025, Paris.
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The heist happened about 30 minutes after the opening of the museum, the visitors are already inside, and it happened only 250 meters from the Monda Lisa Lisa.
The Minister of the Interior Laurent Nunez said that the workers entered from the outside using the cherry painting through the facade of the river to get to the royal hall 23.
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The thieves committed two crimes using an angle grinder, Nunez said. Alarms brought louvre agents into the room, forcing the attackers to write, but the theft was complete.
BecCuau said the thieves who threatened the museum guards with an angle grinder used to smash the jewelry cases before fleeing.
The director of the Louvre, Laurence des Cars, faced questioning by the culture committee in the Senate on Wednesday amid the security of the museum.
The vehicles mentioned by the museum have a lack of security cameras outside of the monument, and we had other “weaknesses” revealed by Sunday’s theft.
“Today we are facing a terrible failure at the Louvre, for which I take my share of responsibility,” he said.
The cars of Laurence des, the director of Le Louvre Museum, put before the hearing of the Commission of Culture, three days after the seizure of historical treasures during daylight, on Oct. 22, 2025, Paris.
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“We didn’t find the thieves coming soon,” the cars said.
He said that the museum’s alarms have worked well, but at the moment they are not enough for full video surveillance outside the museum, although there is a plan to provide full areas of all the shoes of the louvre. The end of the camera above the gallery of Apollo, said des cars, facing west and did not capture the balcony where the break was made.
He also raised barriers to prevent cars from parking directly next to the museum buildings, and said he would pressurize the police station inside the museum, which receives 30,000 visitors a day and 2,300 employees.
Des Cars added that for Sunday’s robbery, Louvre agents were “unarmed” and that they “followed the Security Act with responsiveness, precision and calmness.”
“Because of their professionalism, no one was injured. In this evil, no one’s life is affected.
After following the heist
The manufacturer of the cherry picker used in the Louvre line took advantage of the opportunity by using it as a social media ad.
They shared a photo from the heist and the machines outside the Louvre and added the slogan, “where you have to act quickly.”
“The Böcker Agilo can transport 400 kg of goods, at a speed of 42 m / minute, thanks to a car that is as quiet as a whisper,” the German company added.
In an interview with AFP on Wednesday, Alexander Böcker, who is in charge of the company, said that he “sold this round of goods a few years ago to a French customer in Paris and the surrounding area.”
He said the customer wished to remain anonymous and confirmed that they were being robbed by thieves suspected of stealing the Louvre during the exhibition last week.
“They removed the customer’s logo and changed the license plate,” he added.
After learning about the robbery, Böcker said he immediately realized that his company’s equipment was being used outside the Louvre.
“When it became clear that no one was hurt in the mischief, we took the humor a little,” he said, adding that “he started thinking about how we could use it.”
That’s when he said his wife came up with the slogan: “That’s when you have to act quickly.”
It seems that the furniture giant IKEA also used the opportunity to advertise the glass dome on the base.
“I won’t protect your crown jewels either … but it will give them their rightful place,” the company wrote on Instagram.
Meanwhile, the Louvre changed its slogan on the home page of its website following the heist, which read: “Escape from the Louvre.”
The message has now been changed to “Louvre Museum” after renewing the previous slogan, which was displayed since the end of March 2021, according to a press release from the museum.
The investigation is ongoing.
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