French authorities are investigating after a robbery at the Louvre museum in Paris saw a group of thieves get away with ...

It was the most prosaic of equipment for the grandest of heists: a ladder, propped right under the noses of French guards. The thieves exited as they entered, through a window, fleeing with nearly all ...

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