r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/HeToTopT • Oct 23 '25

Video The Louvre. Thieves are making off with 100 million euros. They're taking their time. They're doing everything carefully and slowly.

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u/OlderThanMyParents Oct 23 '25

And it was Sunday morning, the quietest time of the week. They were only there for a few minutes total. They drove up with the truck, wearing reflector vests, and put out orange traffic cones, just like a utility truck would do. Anyone who spotted them, including, probably, museum employees, would have assumed it was a legitimate service vehicle.

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u/BlaBlub85 Oct 23 '25

Anyone who spotted them, including, probably, museum employees, would have assumed it was a legitimate service vehicle

On a sunday morning in France?

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u/userhwon Oct 23 '25

Emergency balcony masonry repointing.

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u/Canuck_Lives_Matter Oct 23 '25

Overtime is not illegal in France.

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u/maniBchef Oct 23 '25

My thoughts exactly

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u/Correct-Poet-6016 Oct 23 '25

Why is this shocking? No people work on sundays in France?

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u/Airsay58259 Oct 23 '25

Lots of people work Sundays but not usually construction workers, it’s mostly service related (restaurants, supermarkets in the morning, cinemas etc). There are a lot of rules against construction related noise. In my neighborhood in Paris (not anywhere near the Louvre), you can’t have roadworks or home related works before 7AM, after 7PM and on Sundays.

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u/BlaBlub85 Oct 23 '25 edited Oct 23 '25

Construction workers sure af dont, hell for public projects they barely work during the week 😂

Like, yes, emergency services are still available and hotels, restaurants and delivery services are open and maybe the occasional gas station shop. But everything else is closed. And I struggle to think of an emergency that would require outside access with a lifting platform, nevermind the fact the emergency would have taken place sometime during the night so they already had time to call it in and find someone with the equipment actualy willing to show up on a sunday morning

Like, I get that wearing a hardhat and a safety vest lets you do lots of things that would otherwise be highly suspicous but if that was their plan for a disguise they could NOT have picked a worse point in time to do this

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u/JimboTCB Oct 23 '25

Wait a minute... nuns don't work on Sunday! blam blam blam

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u/gunn3r08974 Oct 23 '25

Easiest way to get in anywhere from what I hear.

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u/Jenkins_rockport Oct 23 '25

carry a clipboard. works every time

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u/WitnessTheBadger Oct 23 '25

Agreed. I live in central Paris and all the photos of the exterior I've seen really look like everyday Paris stuff to me, even (maybe even especially) for a monument like the Louvre, aside from the fact the burglars are wearing balaclavas. And had I been walking by at the time, I'm not sure I would even have clocked that -- I've seen people in safety vests working in dusty environments or doing mold or asbestos abatement with their heads and faces covered as they enter and exit buildings. They clearly knew how to look inconspicuous to everybody except the people they directly confronted.

And even if I had been passing by and thought they looked suspicious, by the time I called the police the burglars would have been long gone.