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Top Stories: Art of the steal: From Louvre to Dresden Green Vault, why are heists happening in Europe?

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Sun Nov 2 2025

From Paris to Dresden to London, why are heists happening in Europe?

Criminal police investigate the environment outside the Residenzschloss palace that houses the Gruenes Gewoelbe (Green Vault) collection of treasures on Nov.25, 2019 in Dresden, Germany. Thieves, apparently after having sabotaged the electricity supply, broke into the museum through a window early this morning and reportedly made off with jewels, diamonds and other precious stones worth one billion Euros, making it the biggest heist in post-World War II German history.

The raid on the Louvre is far from the first museum heist. But several factors have combined to make Europe fertile ground for cultural thefts.

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