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Multiple people have now been arrested over a jewellery heist at Paris’s famed Louvre Museum.
However, the lavish jewels that once adorned France’s royals are still missing.
In the days after the heist, experts warned that the jewels – which are valued at more than €88 million (£77.5 million) – could be melted down or broken into parts. If that is done successfully, the smaller pieces could go up for sale as part of a new necklace or earrings without turning too many heads, some say.
“You don’t even have to put them on a black market, you just put them in a jewellery store,” said Erin Thompson, an art crime professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.
“It could be sold down the
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