The success of the “Pocket Luxury” exhibition, which would end on September 29 at the Cognacq-Jay Museum, on 3my district of Paris, had led its management to extend it until the end of November. Sad decision: on Wednesday, November 20, around 10:30 a.m., four hooded men stole, in the presence of visitors, five collection boxes and snuff boxes, destroying the display case that contained them with an ax and a baseball bat. According to information from Worldsome of the stolen items had been loaned by the British crown. The exhibition, which includes objects from the collection of Ernest Cognacq, benefited in particular from loans from the Palace of Versailles and the Louvre.
The city of Paris created a psychological unit, which filed a complaint, and the museum will remain closed until further notice for the purposes of the investigation. “No injuries have been reported. “The municipal police and the national police intervened immediately after the events.”the city council specifies in a press release. According to the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, the amount of damage is being assessed. According to information from WorldThe amount of the loot would amount to one million euros.
The Banditry Suppression Brigade (BRB) has been investigated for armed robbery by an organized gang, we have learned again the world.
The matter revives the trauma of Parisian museums, which had not suffered a robbery of this type since the “robbery of the century” that occurred in 2010 at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. At that time, Vréjan Tomic, alias “Spider-Man”, had stolen five master paintings: Still life with candlestick, by Fernand Léger, The woman with the fanby Amedeo Modigliani, HE pigeon with peasby Pablo Picasso, The Olivier near l’Estaqueby Georges Braque, and The Pastoralby Henri Matisse. Despite a long investigation, none of these works have been found since. The prospects of obtaining the precious objects stolen from the Cognacq-Jay Museum remain slim. Gold objects are often melted and transformed.
