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Thieves Make Major Jewelry Heist From French Museum

Was the Paris museum heist a catastrophic security failure or a brilliantly executed operation by expert thieves?

JUL 6·Updated JUL 8

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Above: The Lalique Museum, situated at the Hochberg glassmaking site in Wingen-sur-Moder, on July 31, 2016. Image credit: Jean-Pierre Dalbéra/Creative Commons Attribution 2.0/Wikimedia Commons

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Repeated embarrassing lapses invite more hits on French cultural sites. Security firms botched alarm responses and left museums exposed to raids. This was a massive security failure.

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