After the armed robbery incident on October 19, the Louvre has transferred some of its jewelry to a 26-meter-deep national vault. According to French media reports,After the Louvre Museum in Paris was robbed, part of its jewelry collection has been transferred to the vault of the Banque de France, the French central bank.
French RTL radio station quoted multiple sources as saying that the collections were transported to the Bank of France vault several hundred meters away from the museum under police escort on the 24th.
Details of the collection are unclear, but many pieces of royal jewelry originally on display in the Apollo Gallery where the robbery took place, as well as some jewelry that had been on display in the museum earlier, are among the items being moved.
The report said,The bank stores these collections in a main vault 26 meters underground, where about 90% of France's gold reserves are stored. Many notebooks of Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci, valued at more than 600 million euros, have also been stored in the vault for many years.
At 9:30 a.m. local time on October 19, 2025 (30 minutes after the museum opened), an armed robbery occurred in the Apollo Gallery exhibition area of the Louvre Museum in Paris, the French capital. Several masked suspects broke into the construction area on the side of the Seine River, used an angle grinder to destroy the display cabinets and stole 8 pieces of jewelry, including necklaces, brooches, and crowns.
The museum subsequently announced a temporary closure for one day, and police blocked the François Mitterrand Pier along the museum.
During the incident, there were four suspects, two of whom were wearing work clothes and yellow reflective vests. They used a lifting basket to enter the Louvre from the outside, and the other two drove a motorcycle to respond. The entire crime process only lasted about 7 minutes, and the economic losses were estimated to be up to 88 million euros.
