Art of the Heist: Louvre Break-In Echoes Las Vegas’ Notorious Burglaries
Las Vegas, much like Paris, has a long history of daring and attention-grabbing robberies. The recent theft of France’s crown jewels from the Louvre, executed by impostors posing as maintenance workers, recalled the city’s own catalogue of audacious crimes.
According to Claire White, director of education at the Mob Museum, the Louvre heist’s methods mirrored tactics seen many times before in Southern Nevada. Over the decades, the Las Vegas area has experienced a series of remarkable burglaries — from a high-profile diamond theft in the 1950s to the exploits of the Hole in the Wall Gang during the 1970s and 1980s, and even a tow-truck-assisted raid on an Elvis museum in the 2000s.
"Looking at the Hole in the Wall Gang is a super-relevant and interesting comparison to what so recently happened at the Louvre, just because of the way that the Hole in the Wall Gang operated," said White. "They would break in to private homes and businesses across the Las Vegas Valley by literally busting a hole in the wall of buildings."
Author’s Summary
The Louvre jewel heist reflects Las Vegas’s own legacy of bold and creative burglaries, linking modern crimes with a storied past of audacious thefts.
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