The article can't be bothered to include any pictures of the stolen jewels
edit: I think these are the stolen jewels
this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2025
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They would have taken their own photos, but the jewels were stolen so they couldn't.
I won the luck lotto with an Amazon mistake that packed a freakin' Switch 2 with my order of storage containers a couple months ago. 🤣
Reported
I'll keep an eye out for them.
"Why do you think these are the stolen items?"
"Well, for one, I just took these pictures in my cellar of stolen jewels..."
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Last headline I saw about this said 7 minutes. Pretty soon the thieves will be reaching back in time to grab these things.
Maybe they're hoping that, by posting the wrong figure, they'll compel the thieves to correct them, thereby revealing themselves.
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So you have the jewels. Now what? Do they just go into some rich person's secret collection? It's not like you can fence these things.
On jobs like these, they already have a buyer.
They said with suspicious confidence....
When the French Blue was stolen after the revolution, it was recut and probably became the Hope Diamond.
If they can't find a buyer, they'll melt it down and recut any gems that are too recognizable. Easy money, if you know the right people.
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They think they'll dismantle and melt them and try to fence the stones (stones, especially famous ones are pretty worthless). They should get about 200 k€ for the lot if they're lucky. At least according to art specialists debating on news channels.
If they're sophisticated thieves, they will be sold intact to some overseas billionaire for much more than that. You'd be surprised (or maybe not that surprised) how much stolen art and artefacts winds up in the private collections of rich assholes.
For some reason, this is not considered likely by the investigators. Don't ask me why.
They can’t prosecute the rich, why even bother investigating them.
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Float a line to the Saudi Royal family Jared Kushner, they’d buy them no shame at all
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I thought this type of crime was deeply rooted in the past, and fiction. If no-one got seriously hurt: chapeau!
Maybe not so unusual. I was at a museum in Germany on vacation a few months before I saw in the news there was a jewel heist there
So you were scoping the place before the deed? Hmmmm
I never understood stealing high value items. That shit is gonna be so hot it'd take a deep network to fence.
You're assuming they don't have a customer yet.
Indeed, it's not like this was opportunism.
Just give them to some local children to play with.
As an aside, am I the only one who always thought Alfred was kinda a piece of shit for that story? Like a lot of Batman stuff hasn't aged well, but even when I first watched that movie, going scorched earth for a jewel thief was fucked up.
Some people want to watch the world burn. Alfred actually did set their world on fire and watched it burn.
Melt it down, problem solved
Genius! Melting down rubys and sapphires, why didn’t I think of that!
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These trinkets will go to a very rich collector, not through your typical "fence the goods" path. I'd check Mar-a-Lago as a first step.
Can’t wait for the film
Someone should really try to beat that record should they be returned.
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Thats where I wear a chastity belt…no ones getting their hands on my crown jewels.
I love how my brain immediately pictured a jewel encrusted royal chastity belt despite nothing in your comment saying anything to suggest that
Crown jewels…Brit slang for the gentlemans area.
With the word "Princess" spelled out in diamonds washed in the blood of African children!
i bet it was lupin!
{Dr House barges in} "It's never lupu...sorry, what did you say?”
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Where was security during all this? Was there NO camera coverage on that part of the building? This is The Louvre, not a pawn shop. All the reporters keeps saying this is "the crime of the century" to which I say, "well yeah, but that's only because your awful security made that possible!"
We are in the "telling the public what evidence they have will alert the perps" phase, only wild media speculation until the investigators are done doing their thing.
I look forward to Internet Historian doing one of his stock image gilliamation videos about this.
Where was Nicholas Cage?
Didn't anyone bother to get an airtag on those things?
"Guys, the jewels, go get them."
"I don't know much about rocks, but I know what I like, and that is rocks that sell."
- Bain (Payday 2)
"It's a funny fuckin' world we live in, eh?"
- Hoxton (Payday 2)
Oh no, the world is missing some shiny rocks. I demand the planet cease rotating until these rocks are restituted!
can't wait for the true crime yt essay
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