National commotion and international amazement. Following the spectacular daylight robbery at the Louvre Museum’s Apollon gallery this Sunday, October 19, the robbery made headlines in numerous newspapers around the world. Questions, lethargy, but also questions about the security of the world’s great museum… The robbery of the century has crossed our borders.
N-TV in Germany, Sky TG24 in Italy, RTVE in Spain… The television channels had their cameras focused on the glass pyramid.
“It was a daring and sophisticated robbery,” summarizes an ABC News journalist on the American media’s morning program.
French news occupied a large space throughout the day on small foreign screens. “There is a lot going on in Australia. Our prime minister will meet, for example, with Donald Trump, but we think our viewers will be very interested in this news,” Jessica Millward, European correspondent for the Australian channel 9News, explains to BFMTV.
Like her, many media outlets spent the day in front of the Louvre windows to follow the new announcements and information about the robbery. “Norwegians are very interested in what is happening in France and Europe,” says correspondent for the Norwegian network TV2 Vilde Roald. “I’m going to do a duplex for the 6:30 pm news, it’s the biggest news in Norway.”
“The robbery of the century at the Louvre”
The spectacular robbery also caused a lot of ink to flow. The Spanish newspaper El País talks on its cover about the “Louvre robbery of the century.” In Italian Switzerland, the Corriere del Ticino headlines “France in shock.” The theft of Napoleonic jewels from the 19th century also made the front page of the German newspaper Bild.
A parallel between the great cinema robberies in The hand on the neck EITHER Ocean 12 It is written by the Süddeutsche Zeitung, although the German newspaper highlights the lack of “intelligent style” of the thieves who lost Empress Eugenie’s crown in their escape.
On the British island, The Sun talks about “one of the most daring incursions in recent times.”
They highlight “The fragility of security”
Outside Europe, the media also captures the information. NHK in Japan, El Universal in Mexico and Al Jazeera in the Middle East: they all tell the story of the seven minutes of madness of the theft of the eight precious jewels.
And as in France, most of these media also raise the question of museum security. “This theft highlighted the fragility of the security of the main Parisian cultural institutions,” highlights the Argentine media Infobae.
“A robbery in broad daylight, so audacious that many wonder how it could have happened so quickly,” American readers of Time can also read.
The Belgians from the newspaper Le Soir believe that the thieves “apparently knew how to take advantage of the vulnerability of this historical monument”, while the Portuguese from Expresso speak of “security at the highest level” inside the museum “but outside there is no one to keep watch”.
An issue that tarnishes the image of France but greatly tarnishes the countries of the world because three quarters of the visitors the Louvre receives each year are foreigners. In 2024, the museum will open its doors to 8.7 million people.
Source: BFM TV
