More than 14 museums, from Wales to Sicily, have been hit by smash-and-grab criminals since early 2025.

The dispute, which debuted with strikes in December 2025, was one of the longest of its kind for the Louvre.

A full timeline of the heist, the suspects’ confessions, and the wave of copycat museum thefts that followed across Europe.

Suspects have been caught, but the loot has disappeared. In police circles, there is talk of "cursed jewelry". Where do the investigations stand six months after the Paris museum break-in?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LONDON -- A fourth suspect believed to be part of a crew that pulled off the Oct. 19 jewel heist at the Louvre Museum in Paris was ...

Nearly a year on from a daring jewellery heist, the Louvre museum is still trying to address serious security gaps – a significant challenge for the world’s most visited museum. Its new director ...

The head of the Louvre Museum resigned Tuesday, four months after a brazen daylight heist where thieves snatched jewels worth approximately $102 million, shocking French citizens who questioned how a ...

PARIS and LONDON -- Nobody was monitoring the live feed. As masked men hacked a hole in a window at the Louvre Museum in Paris in October, a security camera inside the targeted Apollo Gallery was ...

France's Louvre museum has installed large metal bars over the windows of the gallery thieves broke into in October. The Louvre is set to get a multimillion-dollar security overhaul next year after a ...

Four more people were arrested Tuesday in the investigation into last month's spectacular daylight heist of imperial jewels from the Louvre Museum, French authorities announced. Paris prosecutor Laure ...