Louvre Robbery - The robbers were stupid or wise?

Yesterday morning at 9:30 am, four masked men arrived at the southern side of the Louvre Museum. They arrived in a truck with an expandable ladder to lift themselves up to the second floor. They calmly cut the window glass by battery powered saws and and entered the gilded Galerie d'Apollon.

The robbers broke into this space in Louvre

They supposedly threatened the guards away. In a rapid pace they swept off the historic and super-expensive jewelries on display and escaped in bikes.

So far so good for the thieves.

But the irony is, the the gallery space had in display two extremely valuable items. The Crown of Empress Eugene, the wife of Napoleon III. And the Regent, one of the most valuable diamond in the world.

The robbers missed the Regent in a hurry.

They took the crown with them but on the way it slipped off their hold and was later found little distance away from the museum in a slightly damaged condition!

The crown was found a little distance away from the museum

Mistakes happen. Particularly if such an ambitious mission is executed in just ten minutes.

But I guess, the very goal of the dramatic and daring assault is defeated because of the Crown dropped from hand of one of the robbers in a hurry to escape.

They must be cursing each other in some secret underground hideout, as happens in the movies.

But there is one more irony in the whole affair. They did not or could not steal the famous diamond, Regent. Had they stolen it, we should remember that they would have stolen something that was actually stolen to begin with! If we look at the provenance of the diamond, we shall realize that even the French state should not claim it as its own.

Because, the diamond was supposedly discovered by an enslaved man in the Kollur Mine near Krishna River in India. The man tucked the diamond in the dressing of his wounded leg for some time. Later he managed to reach the coast and tried to align with a British Sea Captain to sell the diamond. The term agreed was to split the profit into half. But the British Sea Captain killed the man and ROBBED the diamond from him. That's how the fated journey of the Regent began. It finally ended up with Napoleon.

Hence, you must realize that the diamond should have remained a family fortune of the enslaved man. It was actually robbed from him. Therefore, the thieves would have stolen something that did not actually belong to the current owner at all!

The value of the diamond is supposedly $60 Million. And it was right there before their eyes to be grabbed. But they did not or could not.

The robbers were indeed stupid...eh?

Think twice. They may not be idiots really. Whoever possessed the diamond during its almost 300 years of journey, had suffered misfortunes. The Regent is known to be cursed.

Maybe the robbers averted misfortune!

Let us see how the hunt unfolds in the coming days. How soon they get caught....