Louvre thieves’ slow-motion getaway using furniture lift was caught on video

<p>Footage showing two men appears to have been filmed from nearby window in museum</p><p>The slow-motion getaway of two thieves from the Louvre <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/21/louvre-heist-losses-put-at-almost-90m-as-museums-head-prepares-to-face-mps">clutching €88m</a> (£76m) of France’s crown jewels was captured on video, it has emerged – the latest dramatic twist to the country’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/20/louvre-museum-robbery-thieves-stolen-jewellery">most spectacular heist in decades</a>.</p><p>The 36-second clip, which <a href="https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/cambriolage-au-louvre-ils-vont-quitter-ils-vont-quitter-les-images-des-braqueurs-qui-fuient-le-musee-23-10-2025-Z74DGPFOFBEMNIHTIQJ7IVQLOI.php">Le Parisien newspaper said</a> it had verified, shows two men dressed in black, one wearing a yellow hi-vis vest and the other a motorcycle helmet, slowly descending on a furniture lift from the museum’s Apollo gallery.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/23/louvre-thieves-slow-motion-getaway-caught-on-video">Continue reading...</a>